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 »
Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine’s (Trash Humpers, Mister Lonely, Julien Donkey-Boy, Gummo, Kids) latest film, opens with images of pulsating, gyrating male and female twenty-something bodies under an ultra-bright Florida sun to the throbbing, sensory-pummeling sounds of dubstep p... Read More »
Admission (Weitz, 2013) centers on Portia Nathan (Tina Fey), an admissions officer for Princeton, whose life goes into upheaval when she is contacted by John Pressman (Paul Rudd) who runs a new alternative high school in rural New Jersey. During her high school visits, she meets... Read More »
Even Stephenie Meyer’s worst detractors – of which they are legion – would have to begrudgingly admit that the Twilight series struck a chord, however wrong-headed, however, regressive, initially with her YA (young adult) audience and later with women of all ages. At its core, th... Read More »
In an era where civic duty and personal heroics are often conflated – or, more likely, confused – with clamorous projections of fantastical masculinity, it’s easy to mistake the phallic armory in Delmer Daves’s 3:10 to Yuma as symbols of power, cylindrical totems to androgenic po... Read More »
The words “Je ne sais pas” (“I don’t know”) escape the pursed, near quivering lips of Odile (Anna Karina) with such echoic frequency throughout Jean-Luc Godard’s seventh feature, Band of Outsiders, that one may be inclined to agree with petty criminals Franz (Sami Frey) and Arthu... Read More »
Back to 1942 is a film that explores the ravages of famine and the responsibilities of a government to the governed It is a large scale humanist epic that attempts to tell a story too big for a single vantage. It follows several groups during the Henan famine (1942-1944) and atte... Read More »
Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood Director: John Luessenhop Country: USA Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller Official Trailer: Here Editor’s Notes: Texas Chainsaw 3D will be released on Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD combo pack tomorrow, May 12th. At the r... Read More »
Be it calculated or simply fortuitous, the transition from stagey to alfresco scenery near the two-hour mark of Lawrence Olivier’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III comes as an optically welcomed contrast, an abrupt visual decompression of the work’s previously bottled gran... Read More »
The simple ghost story structure has been transformed into a compelling drama with jump scares. Sadly, the resulting film fails in fully satisfying either genre demands. You’ll either get a mediocre horror film or a mediocre dysfunctional family adventure depending on your inclin... Read More »
Those who meet me anew usually come to difficulty in apprehending how I once was no friend to lucidity. Likening perceptive normality to but one of many lenses through which to filter existence – specifically, one that has roots in the survival-driven, neurological evolution of ... Read More »
