Princess of Whales
They say that comedy can be highly culturally specific, and I can tell you it’s true after staring uncomprehendingly at the Korean movie Miss...
The Virgin Homicides
The blandly titled Innocence is the latest in the relatively small field of horror movies in which the slasher preys on teenage virgins. One...
Two-Part Solo
What if Elvis’ twin brother had lived? The makers of The Identical aren’t the first to ask that question, but they are the first...
End-of-Summer Roundup
It’s the end of August, and the movie distributors are busy depositing all their odd entries in the smaller auditoriums at the AMC Grapevine...
Wake Me Up
Chloë Grace Moretz is 17 now, and in the past four years and change, I’ve seen her play a superheroine (Kick-Ass), a vampire (Let...
Strait Fighters
This past weekend, the movie known in this country as The Admiral: Roaring Currents became the biggest box-office hit in South Korean history, surpassing...
Crosses to Bear
Brendan Gleeson has acted in many Hollywood and British movies, but only the filmmakers in his native Ireland seem to have really figured out...
Conceal, Don’t Feel
Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver famously took 20 years to come to the big screen, and when I caught up to it a few...
Taken
The romantic comedy What If is adapted from T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi’s play Toothpaste and Cigars. I’ve never seen the play, but somehow...
More Than Meets the “I”
In a fresh look at a tired argument, director Mike Cahill adds his flavor to the ongoing evolution-versus-creationism battle with I Origins, and after...
