by Ryland Aldrich, February 4, 2012 1:47 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...
by Ryland Aldrich, February 3, 2012 10:36 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...
by J Hurtado, February 3, 2012 1:05 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. ...
by Niels Matthijs, February 3, 2012 7:55 AM
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...
by Jim Tudor, February 3, 2012 4:01 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 Canfield, February 2, 2012 11:40 PM
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...
by J Hurtado, February 2, 2012 11:05 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...
by J Hurtado, February 2, 2012 2:33 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...
by Peter Martin, February 2, 2012 12:02 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...
by Alex Koehne, February 2, 2012 11:30 AM
Safety Not Guaranteed is the feature film debut of director Colin Trevorrow and writer Derek Connolly. It stars Aubrey Plaza as Darius Britt, a new writer at a local magazine. She is sent out with her boss and a...
by Peter Martin, February 2, 2012 11:01 AM
Ti West quickly established himself as a director to watch with The Roost, his first feature film, and he's built on that foundation with his subsequent work (Trigger Man and, especially, The House of the Devil). Even his ill-fated Cabin...
by Andrew Mack, February 2, 2012 10:30 AM
How much did you hate school when you were a kid? Oh my god how slow was that clock? Will it never reach that blessed hour of 3pm? And what if it was time to go and you couldn't...
by Ard Vijn, February 2, 2012 6:48 AM
(It's a simple story told well. Very well. Very, VERY well.) Director Ann Hui's film "A Simple Life" has reigned supreme at several festivals already, most notably Venice where lead actress Deanie Yip took the big prize and Ann...
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by J Hurtado, February 1, 2012 10:48 PM
Sushi Typhoon's latest film has been making the festival circuit for many months now, and February 7th marks the Yakuza Weapon's home video debut from Well Go USA. I first caught wind of the project when we reported on one...
by Oggs Cruz, February 1, 2012 2:51 AM
The biggest problem of Enrico Santos' My Cactus Heart is that its protagonist, Sandy (Maja Salvador), the owner of the titular so-called cactus heart, is nothing more than a standard-issue rom-com dame, afflicted with issues brought about by familial...
by Alex Koehne, January 31, 2012 10:09 PM
Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me has a lot going for it. It's smart, it's charming, it's funny and it's deeply personal. If you know of Mike Birbiglia's other work, you know that this is the case with just about...
by Ryland Aldrich, January 31, 2012 8:25 PM
Mountains of thanks to Andy Jurgensen (@theJURG) for visiting the top of Main Street, Park City on multiple occasions last week and filing this awesome roundup! Now in its 18th incarnation, the Slamdance Film Festival is now considered Park...
by Ard Vijn, January 31, 2012 7:47 PM
(Warning: this film has gross content. GROSS!) Serbia is certainly a country to keep track of film-wise. With a rich tradition of grand, beautiful cinema, an ingrained wry sense of humor and a history that is tragic and eclectic, it...
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by Alex Koehne, January 31, 2012 4:06 PM
I'll say right now that I am no connoisseur of the horror/thriller genre. I'm not easily scared or startled and while I enjoy the occasional breakout film of this sort, it's not the type of movie I actively seek...
by James Marsh, January 31, 2012 1:55 PM
In a rare, but much welcome change of pace, Johnnie To came off the back of 2009's disappointing multinational crime thriller, VENGEANCE, with two relatively light and fluffy romances. DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART successfully navigated a complex and hard-to-predict...
by J Hurtado, January 31, 2012 1:35 PM
The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection was RaroVideo's second home video release in the USA last year. The films were reviewed and discussed quite thoroughly by our Peter Martin at that time. It only makes sense that RaroVideo's follow up...
by Alex Koehne, January 31, 2012 11:30 AM
Robot and Frank is a touching story about a man named Frank, played by Frank Langella, and his (at first) imposed friendship with, yes, a robot. It's got a great sense of humor which functions contrapuntally against the more...
by Charles Webb, January 31, 2012 10:00 AM
Nicholas Winding Refn has, to my mind, made three perfectly-realized movies in his Pusher films and a series of subsequent experiments/exercises with Bronson, Valhalla Rising, and our topic of discussion here. I don't say that to mean that the latter...
by J Hurtado, January 31, 2012 9:05 AM
I reviewed this film following a screening at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas in 2011. I will be reprinting the content from that review and adding specific notes on the Blu-ray at the bottom.After ten long years, it brings...
by Hugo Ozman, January 31, 2012 6:10 AM
It's only January and there is already a serious contender for the best Asian action movie of 2012. That film is from HK and stars Asian superstar J.C.. But no, it's not Jackie Chan. It's Jay Chou who is...
by Alex Koehne, January 30, 2012 10:30 PM
Under African Skies is a documentary about Paul Simon's seminal album, Graceland. It covers the producing of the original album as well as the controversy it sparked upon its release. The album was seen as a breaking of the...
by J Hurtado, January 30, 2012 9:30 PM
This review may be a first for Twitch. I don't think we've ever reviewed a proper adult film. We've certainly not shied away from films with unsimulated sexual contact, but those scenes have typically been incidental rather than integral to...
by Alex Koehne, January 30, 2012 9:08 PM
I can't say enough good about Filly Brown, the first film from directing team Michael Olmos and Youssef Delara. They have both directed their own features independently, but clearly this was a team that was meant to be. Not...
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