Reviews / Film Reviews
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Dirty Girl
Set in the late 1980′s, Dirty Girl is the feature debut from writer/director Abe Sylvia. It’s an homage that time and to a girl he admired while growing up in Norman, Oklahoma. The film...
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Mozart’s Sister
Filmmaker Rene Feret has made a Mozart film, set in 1763 when he was already excelling at age ten, that takes the compelling turn of focusing on the Mozart family in Mozart’s Sister. This...
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Farmageddon
From its portentous title to an exhaustingly wooden narration, Kristin Canty’s first documentary feature fails almost entirely to engage on the powerful subject of local farm advocacy in an agribusiness-dominated society. As Canty explains,...
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Shaolin
Benny Chan’s war epic Shaolin plumbs the same depths as its innumerable, great predecessors (think The Warlords or Red Cliff), but manages against all odds to level the playing field and provide an enjoyable,...
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Love Crime
French director Alain Corneau’s last film is a tribute to the filmmaker’s abilities and versatility across genres, and best described as “a doozy”. By that, I mean to insist that Love Crime, his psychosexual...
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Mr. Nice
Filmmaker Bernard Rose (Immortal Beloved) has brought to life the sensational autobiography of Howard Marks with exuberance and clear passion for the project, but this adaptation suffers like so many before it. It cannot...
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Attack The Block
First-time British filmmaker Joe Cornish lived within the less fortunate neighborhoods of South London. As a child he had adored the sci-fi alien invasion films that had taken place in suburbia, but had never...
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Fright Night
Fright Night is a respectable horror remake, a fun movie that accomplishes as a time killer. In a time when Hollywood studios are looking for an easy buck by remaking every single popular movie...
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Griff The Invisible
A peculiar trend is passing through the film industry, where projects revolving around one or two off-kilter types of characters come in immediate profusion and somehow manage success despite (or because of) each other....
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Amigo
The number of Hollywood films depicting war and occupation from the viewpoint of the “other” side or of the occupied could probably be counted on less than both hands. Divide that by half, and...
