Sundance 2012 Review: SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is a Fascinating Concert-Doc for More than Just LCD Fans
When LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy announced he was closing up shop on the band he founded, filmmakers Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern had to know why. They approached Murphy with the idea of making a movie about his... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: JOHN DIES AT THE END
John Dies at the End is not a movie for everyone. In my opinion, that's a good thing. A film showing at a festival like Sundance should not only be allowed to be different and hold a unique perspective... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: BLACK ROCK Doesn't Quite Roll
In her first directorial turn, actress Katie Aselton impressed indie audiences with her relationship comedy The Freebie. Looking to go in a completely different direction with her sophomore effort, Aselton and husband Mark Duplass worked up the outline for a... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: SMASHED is a Compelling Look at the Awkward Side of Facing Sobriety
Young and in love, married couple Kate and Charlie Hannah like to get smashed. Like GG-Allin-meeting-your-Christian-parents smashed, someone is going to vomit and piss themselves at some point in the night. They spend their days in bars getting drunk and... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: BONES BRIDAGE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY is a Riveting Look at the Six Misfits who Forever Changed the Skateboard Revolution

"We pioneered the way to make money at skateboarding." - Lance Mountain Before the 80's skateboard boom, the industry had hit another downward spiral so bad it had been coined the "Dark Ages." Zephyr, the world's biggest in-your-face skate... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: V/H/S Brings the Lo-Def Chills
What happens when you give a handful of today's most talented young genre directors a mission: go out and make a short horror flick that looks like it was shot on Dad's old camcorder? In this case you get a... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: GRABBERS is One Classy Creature Feature
Something has gone badly wrong on picturesque Erin Island. The boatload of missing fisherman should have given that away. Or, if not that, then the entire pod of pilot whales that washed up on shore dead and with great gash... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: Quentin Dupieux's WRONG is Weird and Awesome
Writer / director / composer / editor / cinematographer / auteur / weirdo Quentin Dupieux is a guy who pulls the mat right out from under the Hollywood norm and takes bold and colorful chances. Last year, Dupieux created... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: ARBITRAGE Finds Gere's Stock Rising
They say cinematic trends are a snapshot of our times and that certainly seems to be the case with the uptick of financial services dramas we've seen of late. Last year it was J.C. Chandor's Margin Call which made a... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD is Cinematic Magic
Every year Sundance fascinates festival goers with a drama that introduces audiences to a hidden corner of America. Last year it was On the Ice; the previous year, Winters Bone. That honor this year belongs to Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: ABOUT THE PINK SKY is Partly Clouded by Style
As the only film from Japan to make the cut for this year's Sundance Film Festival, Keiichi Kobayashi's debut feature is notable for its rejection of contemporary Japanese filmmaking norms. Shot entirely in black and white and devoid of any... More »
  

Sundance 2012 Review: OSLO, AUGUST 31ST is a Staggering Work of Genius
As Oslo, August 31st hits the screens at Sundance, we take a look back at this review of one of our TIFF 2011 faves. Norwegian director Joachim Trier's brilliant 2006 debut Reprise rocketed him onto the radar of film fans... More »
  

PARIAH Review
I'll admit it, I'm a curmudgeon where coming-of-age films are concerned. Even when they're widely acclaimed, as in Lone Scherfig's An Education, I often find their points too facile, their emphases clouded by an adult perspective that's slyly looking back... More »
  

LIFF 2011: BELLFLOWER review
It's great when a director identifies with a film they've poured heart and soul into making, even more so when it's clearly pushed them to excel. Still, what are you supposed to think when it's a story about weak, contemptible... More »
  

Grimm Up North 2011: THE WOMAN review
What you get out of Lucky McKee's The Woman, a piece of ultraviolent drama that's brilliant and infuriating by turns, is probably dependent on how serious you think the director and his writing partner, novelist Jack Ketchum are being. The... More »
  

HAPPY, HAPPY Review
[Our thanks to Christopher Bourne for sharing with us his review of Happy, Happy. You may find more from Chris at his blog, The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy.]Anne Sewitsky's debut feature Happy, Happy, winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize at... More »
  

ETRANGE 2011: THE MILL AND THE CROSS review
Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross is odd. More two hours of art appreciation than an conventional film, it tells the story (or possibly a story) of the artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder and what it was that led... More »
  

SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE Review
[With Matthew Bate's documentary opening in limited release tomorrow in the U.S. we now revisit Peter Gutierrez's review from this spring.]For one of the most compelling documentaries I've seen on media in a long time (and I take in a... More »
  

ANIMAL KINGDOM UK BluRay review
Animal Kingdom might look small-scale on paper, but David Michôd's moody Australian crime drama has a fairly broad scope. The film tracks the bickering and feuding between a Melbourne family of armed robbers and the way this mish-mash of co-dependent... More »
  

Welcome To Scum Town: HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN Review
You pretty much know what you're in for when you go to see a film called Hobo With A Shotgun. Not only because it's all right there in the title, but because a film like that tends to skew towards... More »
  
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