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
This is a film with a beat-you-over-the-head environmental message. It is being released really early in the year. It has Ted Danson in a starring role. And it is directed by Ken Kwapis, the guy who gave us "Dunston Checks...
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by Jim Tudor, February 3, 2012 4:01 AM
This month kicks off a new and very regular Criterion review column by yours truly, handed over some months ago by the faithful and much missed Rodney Perkins. As I've been cycling through the discs I've come to the conclusion...
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by Canfield, February 2, 2012 11:40 PM
Project Nim, the latest film from Man on Wire director, James Marsh (no relation), was the benefactor of a fortuitous set of release circumstances. Marsh's film deals with a behavioral experiment performed on a chimpanzee to determine if these primates...
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by J Hurtado, February 2, 2012 11:05 PM
If you read my review of John Dies at the End, you know that I had a great time watching the movie, at midnight, in the Egyptian Theater during The Sundance FIlm Festival. Introduced by a bushy bearded Paul Giamatti who...
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by Alex Koehne, February 2, 2012 9:33 PM
Back in October, I reviewed the Synapse Films Blu-ray release of Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker. Earlier this month Arrow Video in the released their edition of the film on Blu-ray. This review will include my analysis of the film from the...
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by J Hurtado, February 2, 2012 2:33 PM
Ben Wheatley's Down Terrace was a dark, weird, funky, concoction with some of the blackest comedy (and least penetrable accents) I'd seen and heard in recent years. So when Mr. Wheatley's followup film, Kill List was scheduled for its World...
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by Peter Martin, February 2, 2012 12:02 PM
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