by Todd Brown, April 30, 2011 6:30 AM
Eschewing the Raimi-inspired, bloody splatter approach originally promised when the film was announced, Franck Richard's The Pack has instead opted for a much darker and moodier path. Instead of being a movie about shock and adrenaline - though it...
by Jim Tudor, March 25, 2011 1:01 AM
Until now, I was a Gregg Araki virgin. That is, in sexual terms (appropriate since those are the terms Araki communicates through in this film), a way of saying I'd never, until this one, seen a film by the edgy...
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by Dustin Chang, March 1, 2011 7:30 AM
A ghost, a monkey spirit with glowing red eyes and a talking catfish all inhabit Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. This disjointed and time transcending narrative follows Boonmee at his farm in...
by Dustin Chang, February 26, 2011 9:00 AM
[Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the latest from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is a personal, gentle and playful contemplation of reincarnation and transmigration of souls. I got a chance to sit down for an interview (via skype) with the...
by Matthew Lee, February 4, 2011 8:14 PM
(A quick explanation: for my viewing of Optimum Home Entertainment's UK release of Bedevilled - available to buy on DVD and BluRay from 28th February 2011 - I've reprinted my earlier review from Manchester's Grimm Up North festival, slightly edited,...
by Matthew Lee, November 29, 2010 10:46 AM
You could argue winning the Palme D'Or at Cannes might do Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives more harm than good in some respects. Drawn out, contemplative, enigmatic and ambiguous, it's liable to reaffirm for a lot...
by Andrew Mack, October 18, 2010 10:42 PM
Though there is little new footage in the new trailer and the first half of it is edited waaaaaay too fast for its own good there is some new footage in the newest trailer for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's crime drama...
by Ben Umstead, October 7, 2010 10:30 AM
[Thanks again to Aaron Krasnov for the following review.]The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu is a vast methodical fragment, spanning 25 years of Romanian ideological dictatorship. Assembled form thousands of hours of archival footage this 3 hour pseudo-documentary is as impressive...
by Peter Gutierrez, October 1, 2010 10:10 AM
With a scope and a historical complexity that makes it feel like a David Lean picture about the salad days of international terrorism, Carlos impresses on any number of levels. But while we're making such a comparison, it's probably also...
by Ben Umstead, September 30, 2010 5:38 PM
[Once again, our thanks to Aaron Krasnov for the following review.]If one lives for years with an object, believing it wholly original and with value, finding out later in life that the object is a mere replication, does this take...
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