According to reports from Sundance, In Fear drew a lot of inspiration from The Blair Witch Project.
With all thrillers, the payoff is as important as the setup, and it’s in the final revelations of the story that Stoker truly falters.
It derives its success from the unsentimental alchemy of its frank dialogue, chemistry between its two leads, and Linklater’s deceptively simple visual style.
Stacie Passon approaches Concussion’s subject matter provocatively though never exploitatively.
The film is a smartly written, deeply engaging portrait of a movement just about to begin.
It’s unfortunate that we never learn what Diana is actually running from.
Raskin honed his craft working as an assistant editor for Tarantino’s late editor Sally Menke.
There’s more to An Unexpected Journey than self-conscious nostalgia and fan pandering.
I have always liked Tony Kushner, and not just the concept of Tony Kushner the public writer.
While we can definitely welcome Jenna-Louise Coleman aboard Doctor Who, Clara remains, for both us and the Doctor, an enigma.
American Animal’s poster, like the film, finds common ground between the high- and lowbrow, the artful and the infantile.
The tone of Jackson’s latest is, appropriately, much more jovial than that of Rings, which unfolds in an era far more stricken with despair.
Each of these moments illustrates a slightly different shade of the films’ fluid realization of a complex visual, thematic, and emotional spectrum.
For all the anticipation and careful setup over the last several episodes, the show’s mid-season finale was somewhat anticlimactic.
In comparison with movies like the recent Taken 2, Argo is more about suspense than it is about action.
The episode’s strongest moments are toward the end, when Rick takes a small team and heads off to Woodbury under Michonne’s lead.
Rick’s storyline is one of several in which characters strike up or rekindle a connection.
It makes better use of its quieter interludes than similar episodes and also offers a handful of isolated standout moments.
Can we all stop thinking about L. Ron and Tom Cruise and just watch the damned movie?
You might have noticed that Hollywood’s superhero well is running a little dry.