DVD Review: Black Butterflies (2011)
A an attractive female poet is rescued from the sea by a seasoned male writer. This happenstance collision of fate would change the lives of these two forever, as we never really know when someone that will be...
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Blu Review: Margaret (2011)
Margaret is something of a time capsule. Shot and originally scheduled for a release in 2007, director Kenneth Lonergan struggled for years in the editing booth to find a cut he was satisfied with, leading to multiple lawsuits...
Blu Review: Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
It should really come as no surprise to anyone that governments are still capable of pure unmitigated evil beyond the wildest Dickensian nightmares of any 19th century street urchin. Evil never really went anywhere, it just figured out...
Blu Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
We Need to Talk About Kevin isn’t as much a film as it is a stream of consciousness. Presented in an entirely non-linear structure and forgoing traditional storytelling, one might think Gaspar Noe directed it. Instead, Lynne Ramsay has...
DVD Review: Don’t Go in the Woods (2010)
Don’t go into the woods! The woods are silly with strategically unkempt hipsters carrying out their band practice and there may be no escaping the acoustic driven torture of their emotional warbling! While this was once a...
DVD Review: How to Live Forever (2009)
The question isn’t so much how to live forever, the question is why anyone would want to live forever. This is the profound existential parable explored in Mark Wexler’s How to Live Forever as he journeys through the...
DVD Review: Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2010)
If you’re like me, you have no idea who “Halston” is and why you should care, but as it turns out he was responsible for the fashion sensibilities of an entire decade as well as the first American fashion...
DVD Review: Certified Copy (2010)
Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, released by the Criterion Collection in a special two-disc set this week, finds him at his most playful in his ongoing exploration of the poetic, poignant lines that separate fiction and documentary, art and life,...
DVD Review: Newlyweds (2011)
Ah, new love… It’s a time of elevated hormone levels where you can make unrealistic prognostications about how the entire relationship will be for the rest of your lives together. This time it’s going to be different. ...
Blu Review: The Grey (2012)
Man often reproves the world, especially at the time of crisis or after the loss of a loved one. Man with tears question the existence of God sometimes, and some even slowly lose faith. The truth is that life...
DVD Review: We Were Here (2011)
I was in elementary school during the heyday of the new “Gay Cancer” epidemic that was causing a national panic and rampant homophobia during its initial outbreak. The virus had only been identified a few years prior, and...
DVD Review: My Perestroika (2010)
My Perestroika starts off with a Technicolor visage of a seemingly unending sea of Lenin’s Communist disciples as an articulate young kid pontificates from the podium. A Westerner during the Cold War would look upon such imagery with...
Review: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Review: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Review: Hara-kiri - Death of a Samurai (2011)
Japan Cuts 2012: The Woodsman and the Rain (2011)
Auteursday: Almayer’s Folly (2011)
