Unless you’re an executive at NBC, it’s been a great fall season for TV.
Throughout these films, Kazan casts assertive supporting players as foils to his ambivalent leads.
The final days of principal photography are upon us.
Though both parts of Woo’s original film mostly serve to amplify his central pre-occupations, Red Cliff 2 goes a little farther in complicating them.
That few people seem willing to demand more from criticism is part of why our craft is in freefall.
Nick Hornby does not just balance the two main characters, but all the supporting ones as well.
Cornillac’s a veritable cretaceous martyr, man. Why can’t I look away?
Ti West’s film is so firmly rooted in suspense that even Hitchcock would be alternately proud and jealous.
The entirety of the episode is dedicated to discussion of Mad Men’s third season.
If the film starts off as a test of Halsey’s will to live, it certainly doesn’t end up that way.
I spent the first two weekends in October sitting in the Bing Theater for the Alain Resnais retrospective.
As dated as it is, Michael Mann’s second theatrical release after Thief remains an intriguing mess of historical provocation.
Of course change comes for literally everyone, as news of Kennedy being shot fills the airwaves and the uncertainty moving forward becomes much more explicit.
I suspect that the children’s book this is based on is probably a charmer, and I can see why kids would love it.
Martyrs has an intelligence and a dogged determination to do and to say what its predecessors could or would not.
For a film that explores the realms of the avant-garde, or anti-art, (Untitled) is drudgingly conventional in narrative and structure.
As Zombie closes the second Halloween, he leaves the door ajar to underwrite, of course, another sequel.
The sticking point for The Box is how well it succeeds as Richard Kelly’s version of a mainstream, commercially viable bit of speculative fiction.
Christian horror films wear their faiths on their sleeves, but more often than not their protagonists wind up coming to terms with their own agnosticism.
Marriage and sex bring with them the promise of intimacy, but it often seems like we confuse the former two for the latter all too often.