[This review first appeared shortly after the film had its world premiere at Fantasia 2007 and reappears now with Mirageman finally making its way to DVD] I must start this review with a bit of a disclaimer. As the... More >>

Straight off, Adam Nayman deserves some kind of commission for convincing a small squadron of film journalists to catch Pedro González-Rubio's sophomore feature Alamar (To the Sea, 2009) at its last public screening at the Isabel Bader. Boasting its... More >>

Hipsters (Russia, dir. Valery Todorovsky)--I never expected that my favorite film of the fest would be a splashy, wide-screen Russian musical set in 1955 Moscow, but there you go. Hipsters recounts the phenomenon of stilyagi, the name given to... More >>

With Mandrill - the third collaboration between star Marko Zaror and writer-director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza - picking up awards hardware at Fantastic Fest it seems appropriate to point out that collaboration number two - much loved lo-fi superhero picture...

Mandrill marks the return of martial artist actor Marko Zaror and writer director Ernesto Díaz Espinoza to Fantastic Fest after winning the Audience Award back in 2007 for Mirageman. Zaror is Mandrill, a hitman for hire, he has modelled... More >>

Yesterday's announcement that Juan José Campanella's The Secret in Their Eyes / El Secreto de sus ojos (2009) has been chosen as Argentina's Oscar® submission for the 82nd Academy Awards® toggled me to transcribe my conversation with director Campanella... More >>

With the 47th edition of the New York Film Festival currently in progress, I thought now would be a good time to follow-up on my response to Section One of Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit, edited by... More >>

Big news today from Fantastic Fest where, before the world premiere screening of Mandrill the team dropped a bomb on the crowd.Mandrill, you see, is the new film from the team behind Chilean martial arts superhero flick Mirage Man,...

The 2009 Global Lens Film Festival launches today at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center with 10 award-winning, narrative feature films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Morocco and Mozambique. "By presenting Global Lens 2009,... More >>

Guillermo Arriaga's writing style is familiar by this point, and you know what you're getting into even before you get it. Over the past 10 years, he's made a name for himself writing sprawling ensemble pieces such as Babel and... More >>