After last year’s medieval fairytale Brave, the guys at Pixar come back to their more witty side while also revisiting a pair of the their…
Steven Soderbergh is not your average auteur. His films are as varied as the genres they belong to and unlike so many Hollywood directors he…
Book-to-film adaptations are known to be tricky affairs. Furthermore, such complexity of translating a text into its visual counterpart becomes more challenging when the written…
Deviating from the overly common batch of raunchy flicks that reduce adolescent manhood to a mindless quest for drunken nights and sexual fantasies comes a…
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…
What is Room 237? Well, for one thing it’s the hotel room in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining which may hold the key to all the…
Derek Cianfrance’s previous character study focused on a degrading marriage over the years. In Blue Valentine, he brilliantly delivered a tender portrait of “real” love,…
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…
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Film Review: The Purge
It’s not often that horror thrillers manage to truly surprise nowadays. And with the “pedigree” The Purge claims, what with its producing links to Paranormal…