Reading the reactions beneath the 4Bia 2 review it seems that I'm not the only one who waited a long time before actually sitting down to watch Alone. Since I just saw it yesterday, here's my take on the film....

Belgians have a hard time recognizing their own talent. That's a fact of life. We're simply not good at promoting our own stuff, even when it's obviously quite awesome. We don't expect to make things that matter in the global...

In the category "better late than never", my review of Adrift in Tokyo (Tenten) Satoshi Miki is a rising star in the Japanese film scene. His first film established him as a somewhat strange and atypical director, Adrift in Tokyo...

The Battle of Changping was one of the decisive military engagements between the rival dynasties of Warring States period China; it all but wiped out the losing side, and still ranks as one of the deadliest confrontations in history....

And to think that the movies make it seem like a stepping stone on the way to adulthood, particularly movies like this. You know, the idea that, once men get past their adolescent fervor, they no longer think about a...

The herons are not what they seem... Even though the marketing hints at yet another long-haired ghost movie made to cash in on the decade-old successes of "Ringu" and "The Grudge", Lee Yong-Ju's "Possessed" isn't that at all. In fact,... More >>

[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for the following review.]One of the best movies I saw this year, Adrift is a mesmerizing and achingly beautiful portrait of romantic frustration, and life in Hanoi--in that order. It opens on a couple's...

[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for the following review.] Hirokazu Koreeda is one of today's most consistently excellent filmmakers, with his recent movies Still Walking and Nobody Knows being critical hits worldwide. Because of this, it seems strange to...

Set in an unspecified French speaking African nation mired by civil war, Claire Denis' White Material skirts around much of the social and political commentary that comes with many films shot on the African continent by semi-outsiders. It is in...

Brace yourself for disappointment.  As painful as it is to say, Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo The Bulletman is far indeed from being the triumphant return to the iconic world that created a rabid cult around Tsukamoto.  Worse than that, not... More >>

Jeanne's reality is bending. The successful journalistic author is loosing her hold on reality - her family becoming literally unrecognizable, her belongings changing and moving without being touched and without any recognition of the changes from anyone else, even... More >>

True story. For five years when I was fresh out of college I worked full time in a pair of homeless shelters here in Toronto. In that time I dealt with skinheads, crack dealers, street hookers and more. I... More >>

How's this for a bit of pressure to lay on a new director: Gabe Ibanez's debut feature Hierro boasts the writer of King of the Hill (El Rey De La Montana), the producers of Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage,... More >>

Skepticism is the beginning of Faith. A capital F, not just because Oscar Wilde said so, but rather for it has in many cases become our modern society's own Hydra, the snake with two heads (should be nine, but we're...

[Many thanks to regular reader WheresWallace for the following review of Spike Jonze's upcoming Where the Wild Things Are.]I caught the Chicago 826CHI benefit showing of Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are with appearances by co-screenwriter Dave Eggars,...