Any artist or fan of art is familiar with the adage that the true greats obsess. An artist is driven to create because of his preoccupations—these impassioned curiosities (some would surely say nuisances). He needs answers, insight, and the only way he can hope to attain either i... Read More »
The film begins with a series of film-photographic images, taken from a variety of sources; they are at once a reflection on the transition from film to digital as well as the transitions in people’s lives. By this end, the viewer is found in the midst of a meditative narrative t... Read More »
During Disney’s focus on live action in the third quarter of the 20th Century there were few animated films that are truly worthy of the famous name. Unlike The Sword In The Stone and The Aristocats however where narrative was secondary to episodic humour, Robin Hood warrants a r... Read More »
Just when it seemed that there were no more action roles for Tom Cruise to take, Oblivion appears. Directed by TRON: Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski, Oblivion was the first major Sci-Fi release of 2013 and, with a budget of over $120 million, promised to be one of the year’s biggest. In... Read More »
Cianfrance's The Place Beyond The Pines strongly evokes the feeling of passage—the passage of time, the passage of motion, the passage of ideas. The balanced structure harmonizes elements of cinematography, narrative, and ultimately narration to achieve a celebration of passing a... Read More »
The Sword In The Stone is perhaps one of Disney's lesser known, and maybe even less popular films. When originally released in 1963 the studio was moving away from its reliance on animation into more live action film production and it is possibly no surprise that this, and films ... Read More »
What's been somewhat lost in the internet's clamoring for a Pacific Rim prequel is just how frustrating it would be to see such a restless imagination conjoined to a single blockbuster franchise for the forseeable future. Mercifully, the fine folk at Criterion have decided to ta... Read More »
The island is a capsule, and in every sense of the word. Physically isolated, its inhabitants needn’t worry about the social boundaries accrued from generations past, the likes of which now seem but arbitrary and distant constructs, impediments to newfound stirrings of communal ... Read More »
With its tonal arrhythmia and fidgety interest in perspective, Marketa Lazarova is a film of awkward transcendence, its swaths of beauty and visual charm so broad that my initial concerns of cohesion, I feel, can be justifiably dismissed. An obliquely portentous prologue sets th... Read More »
Back in 2011, Ghost House Pictures’ announcement that they would be releasing a remake of their 80’s cult horror hit The Evil Dead brought on a rain of criticism, mostly from the movies’ loyal cult following. Audience fears were generally allayed by the announcement that Sam R... Read More »
Ex-CIA operatives. Wiley and resourceful teenagers. Foreign locales and exotic women. An international conspiracy with high reaching implications. How on Earth did this Aaron Eckhart action thriller go so totally and completely off the rails? Read More »
The title says pretty much all you need to know about the content, what the title doesn’t say the poster demonstrates. I caught it on theatrical release in the UK earlier this year and there was a lot of hype around the release. Director Harmony Korine is known for indie favour... Read More »
