Fast & Furious 6 is facing a peculiar challenge. Instead of trying to keep a franchise alive and marginally relevant well into Re-Hash Mode, like…
In the tradition of Carlos Reygadas’ Silent Light, Rama Burshtein’s debut feature is an immersive journey into the cultural mechanics of an isolated community hidden within mainstream society. Unlike…
Falskur Fugl (Ferox is the international title but a literal translation would be “False Bird”) is the third independently financed Icelandic movie released this year (i.e….
Throughout the years, Studio Ghibli has accustomed its following to visually-astonishing fantastic worlds. Their films, always inhabited by an array of singular creatures, venture into…
Emerging from the battered remnants of a destroyed corn-field, leading a flock of shell-shocked survivors, Jeff Bridges‘ Max Klein immediately establishes the tone of intriguing…
Tim Burton hasn’t been having a very good decade. After starting it off rather badly with a needless Planet of the Apes remake he hasn’t made…
After a long experimentation with motion-capture adventures, Robert Zemeckis finally returns to live-action film with Flight. While it’s hard to make the argument that this…
Forget Me Not (Vergiss mein nicht) is a documentary by David Sieveking. In it he tells the story of his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. The…
In 1999 a little movie called The Blair Witch Project came out. It was a low-budget film that set itself up as a real collection…
Can a woman and a man ever just be platonic friends? Well, probably not. But this is the query at the heart of Jennifer Westfeldt‘s…
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