Gus Van Sant finally crawls out from under his Béla Tarr-inspired long-take detachment and dares to explore an interior landscape in ways not seen since My Own Private Idaho.
Lee will never be Wong, and that’s okay.
I think I have sufficiently established the ways in which Godard and Tarantino are similar as artists.
The film proves to be just as engaged with the impossibility of heterosexual relations and the vagaries of desire.
Overall, “Kindred” struck a worryingly dull note, slowing plot development to a crawl and keeping the overall fun quotient pretty low.
Ultimately, the broad question I would like to pose is: is Tarantino really a Jean-Luc Godard of the 1990s and today?
The long-awaited second season premiere of The Boondocks indulges in all of the show’s worst tendencies.
The experience afforded by a collection of this sort demands something of a reexamination of one’s relationship to the medium.
It’s exciting as well as a little nerve-wracking that Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest feature offers many firsts in his career.
“Small Worlds” presents an undeniably affecting story. The problem is, it has practically nothing to do with Torchwood.
The devices that José Luis Guerín uses to probe your consciousness are all cinematic: picture and sound.
I’m a little divided about the new credits sequence, which adds a more explicitly jubilant note but also seems just a little too energetic.
There are a lot of things to admire about Doctor Who’s audacious third season finale, “Last of the Time Lords.”
I bet I know why you’re not watching, and I hope I can convince you to at least give it a shot.
Pete has the gun in his hand—now, the question is how much damage he can do with it.
Like some demented cross between a Norman Rockwell painting and an Eli Roth film.
Is there anything more to see, anything left to say about Blade Runner?
Both films offer pleasurable perversities lying in the cracks of Cathay Studios’s brave new world.
Lake of Fire looks and moves like a cross between a D.A. Pennebaker documentary and a Nike ad, and it really shouldn’t work at all.
im Kring and his writers seem intent on exploring the reasons and logic behind their superpowered universe, and the implications in terms of human evolution all this has.