(Guns? Guns? Wee don't need no steenking guns!) This year at the International Film Festival Rotterdam there was an Icelandic entry for the Tiger Awards: director Oskar Thor Axelsson's first feature-length film "Black's Game". Normally Tiger Award nominees are artistic...
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by Ard Vijn, February 5, 2012 10:18 PM
Of all the hedonistic madmen the cinema has produced, Klaus Kinski may be among the wildest. Kinski's notorious mania and unstable emotional state on film sets is the stuff of legend. His persona even inspired his frequent collaborator, Werner Herzog,...
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by J Hurtado, February 5, 2012 9:57 PM
Going by the feverish buzz around city planning documentary Urbanized (the third of Gary Hustwit's recent series of films on modern design, after Helvetica and Objectified), you could be forgiven for expecting some kind of rapturous epiphany on how the...
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by Matthew Lee, February 5, 2012 9:38 PM
Nopporn Watin's period martial arts flick Yamada: Samurai of Ayothaya (a.k.a. Yamada: Way of the Samurai) talks big, claiming to be based on historical events, casting Olympic athletes to pound the tar out of the bad guys and touting itself...
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by Matthew Lee, February 5, 2012 9:38 PM
The opening sequence in Paddy Considine's brilliant Tyrannosaur is a model of cinematic efficiency so concise they ought to teach it in film school. Revisiting the events of Considine's original short Dog Altogether and turning them into a full-blown feature,...
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by Matthew Lee, February 5, 2012 9:38 PM
Science fiction films have been around almost since the birth of the medium. They've undergone many changes since Georges Méliès gave us A Trip to the Moon, though, and one of the most important people behind their evolution is Douglas...
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by J Hurtado, February 4, 2012 10:05 PM
Ahhh, another snowy year at Sundance (particularly snowy this year) has come to a close. A lot of excellent films have been packed up in their canisters and sent to their new distributors. Even more will move along in...
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by Ryland Aldrich, February 4, 2012 1:47 PM
Our sincere thanks to Andy Jurgensen for his review of Amy Berg's documentary and comparison to the documentary trilogy by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. In 1994, Damian Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were tried and convicted in...
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by Ryland Aldrich, February 3, 2012 10:36 PM
The name Clarence Reid probably doesn't ring many bells unless you are a soul music aficionado. Reid was among the chief architects of the Miami soul sound in the '60s and '70s and the author of many a hit record. ...
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by J Hurtado, February 3, 2012 1:05 PM
Last week I reviewed Takashi Miike (Sun Scarred, Crows Zero, Crows Zero II, Zebraman 2)'s most impressive arthouse venture 46 Okunen no Koi, this week I'll be tackling Miike's biggest anti-arthouse middle finger: Visitor Q. Visitor Q is without a...
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by Niels Matthijs, February 3, 2012 7:55 AM
Packaged as a teen-centric superhuman drama, "Chronicle", eventually manages to wring genuine thrills from a variety of well-worn genre tropes. With its camcorder immediacy and 20+ aged high school seniors, "Chronicle" may look like stale contemporary TV, but ultimately delivers...
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by Jim Tudor, February 3, 2012 4:01 AM
Presentation. Texture. Overall homogeneous. These are some of the immediate hallmarks of truly high-end cooking. Before the dish is even tasted, these factors are already in play. In the new German documentary "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress", renowned Spanish...
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by Jim Tudor, February 3, 2012 4:01 AM
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