Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The most believable moments in Premium slightly prevail over its inauthentic ones.
The Ultimate Gift is so resolutely “good for you” that watching it is a lot like eating Brussels sprout.
Political satires are plentiful, but I didn’t want to get overloaded with them so many worthy films missed the cut.
There isn’t a single short I can recommend in this category without some reservation.
What, exactly, is Kubrick satirizing? Our collective obsession with violence?
At least for the last few years, the voters in this category have shunned instant gratification and gone with more impressionable rewards.
Before The Life and Death of Col. Blimp and A Canterbury Tale, there was 49th Parallel.
What Hiroshi Inagaki manages to pull off with the third episode in the samurai trilogy is nothing short of remarkable.
It would seem that this year’s cinematography nominees were picked by aliens.
Breach is good enough to give you a whiff of the more complex film that might have been.
The film shows us a hero struggling to control his nature and who finally finds that control.
Bridge to Terabithia is a film most children should see, but it’s so dully aestheticized they may not care to.
As sweet as the lives it celebrates, it’s something to savor time and time again.
This first feature by Michael Tully aims for Half Nelson’s salient understanding of the strange, almost seductive allure of drug addiction.
The only recompense Mark Steven Johnson deserves for this latest schlocky comic-book translation is having his DGA card set on fire.
The Academy has shown great resistance to awarding costumes without corsets.
Those looking for an action-packed saga that takes place a long time ago and far, far away need search no further.
Since the beginning of Febraury, Wagstaff and Jeffrey Hill have been writing up various samurai movies on their blog, Liverputty.
This contribution to the serial killer genre proves that the compulsion to plagiarize Se7en is at least as communicable a disease.
For whatever reason, it’s not Peter O’Toole’s perfect 0-for-7 record leading up to this year’s Best Actor contest that’s standing in award-magnet Forest Whitaker’s way to a win.