Tension becomes Caitlin Cronenberg’s film. The release of it, not so much.
Philip Gröning’s film offers up some striking and unforgettable parallels between religious and artistic struggle.
It’s an even-handed account whose content comes to us slowly like the rising tide.
In the immortal words of pioneering film theorist Vachel Lindsay, this is fucking awesome.
Throughout, Keke Parker exudes adolescent fear and frustration with understated naturalism.
Is this film trying to say something to Dubya’s base with all this bibilical imagery?
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector is as rough-hewn and out of place as its titular main character.
As Ashim Ahluwalia delves deeper into his subjects’ lives, John & Jane Toll-Free becomes increasingly nightmarish.
Writer-director James Bai’s Puzzlehead which shows this week at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, proves that ingenuity is currency.
Juvenile provocation for provocation’s sake, Hard Candy delights in its stylishly deviant material.
Prepare to feel cheated.
Girl 6, the story of a girl and her stint in the phone sex biz, is a sloppy and problematic film, no diggity.
Ridley Scott’s Gladiator aspires to be Spartacus by way of The Godfather.
Deepa Mehta’s Water is the third film in the director’s Elemental Trilogy, following 1996’s Fire and 1998’s Earth.
In every Takamine film there’s a hazy quality that marks the filmmaker as an unapologetic sensualist.
Imagine a heist film cast by the Rainbow Coalition and you have some idea of what Spike Lee does with Inside Man.
Things That Hang From Trees offers a slice of special education-tinged Southern gothic minus the evocative eccentricity.
Peter Watkins was reacting against Vietnam, but his assessment can easily be translated into today’s hotbed political climate.
You know it’s hard out there for a pimp, but that wasn’t always the case.
The social and political upheavals of the Cultural Revolution are glanced over to make way for ineffectually meta-movie counterpoints.
Some very good actors speak in some very funny voices in Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School.