by Jim Tudor, May 18, 2012 3:15 AM
Welcome to my second-ever illustrious column, "Tudor's Twitchin' Travel Tours". I'll admit it up front: As satisfied as I was with my debut entry last week, I don't think it exactly set the world on fire in terms of must-read...
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by J Hurtado, May 16, 2012 2:05 PM
The 12th annual New York Indian Film Festival is nearly here, and they've got some great events and films to share. The festival begins on Wednesday, May 23rd and runs through May 27th. During that time, attendees will be treated...
by Canfield, May 16, 2012 11:02 AM
Hello fellow sojourners in the stateside mass media marketplace. Here's another chance to reminisce about the last month or so in home entertainment. Virtually everything you see here is something I wanted to see, a personal favorite or a film...
by J Hurtado, May 10, 2012 9:50 PM
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthaniMy God, My God, why have you forsaken me?Robin Hardy's The Wicker Tree, ten years in the making, is a strange conundrum of a film. Hardy's The Wicker Man, from 1973, is the tale of an English...
by J Hurtado, May 10, 2012 2:42 PM
The last three years have been good to Bollywood action stalwart, Salman Khan. For a long time in the middle part of the last decade, he was beginning to fade from the public's good graces following a number of terrible...
by Todd Brown, May 7, 2012 11:01 AM
Freshly released in Norwegian cinemas is Robert Naess' The Rocka, an independent mock-rockumentary comedy following the travails of BangBang in their climb to the top of the heap. Or, if not the heap, perhaps the middle. As one of...
by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, May 4, 2012 11:00 AM
In the current climate of parody, pastiche, re-hashing, re-booting and recycling of films, it is so refreshing to see a film as unique, original and enjoyable as Strange Frame: Love and Sax. Billed as a animated sci-fi lesbian rock musical,...
by Ben Umstead, May 3, 2012 5:42 PM
There was something in the air today. Some kind of pollen, or plant allergen, something that led me to having a brief conversation about the multi-adapted in multiple mediums, Little Shop Of Horrors. And mind you this wasn't with fellow...
by Matthew Lee, May 2, 2012 2:00 PM
Cross-breeding cinema with the theatre is a tricky business. On the one hand, you've got a medium where you're encouraged to make-believe it's real, while on the other you've got one where the people who work there have to keep...
by Matthew Lee, May 2, 2012 1:00 PM
Watching Carlos Saura's Carmen (1983) nearly thirty years after it was originally released is not unlike listening to a scratchy old recording of a favourite song, where every click, pop and flutter boots you out of the zone and reminds...
