Your Sister’s Sister: Cabin in the Woods
I’d like to take a minute to introduce you to one of the more significant emerging talents in independent film right now. Lynn Shelton...
Blended and Extended
Something about Drew Barrymore seems to smooth out Adam Sandler’s abrasive edges and bring out his sweetness without making him cloying. After The Wedding...
Top 10 Movies
I don’t have enough slots! That’s always a nice problem to have when making a list of the year’s best movies. Even taking into...
Unstoppable: Mess With the Bull
It would be inaccurate to call Unstoppable a Korean remake of Taken, though it wouldn’t be too far off. Actually, I’d watch this thriller...
Blood and Snow
Since Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published 110 years ago, doing something new with vampires in any storytelling medium has gotten to be extremely difficult.
The...
Eastward Bound
It has been nine years since Tommy Lee Jones made his directing debut with The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. That acclaimed Western, which...
Repo Man
David Michôd is clearly a talented filmmaker. I just wish I could figure out what he’s up to.
The Australian writer-director made his debut in...
Avengers: Hammer and SHIELD
Joss Whedon looks poised to become the king of American pop culture, and I don’t mind it one bit. Having already established himself as...
Conviction Has Courage, Lacks Craft
Hilary Swank stars in Conviction as a woman who launches a more or less single-handed assault on the legal system, and this suffocating, curiously...
Suddenly Susan
I come to you this week as a Whit Stillman fan. There may not be that many of us, but our passion for his...
