With the 22nd Annual Austin Film Festival kicking off Friday, the lackluster year of unique, original and meaningful film is about to get a big Texas boost. Typically AFF debuts a few awards contenders, but this year their slate is bigger and better than ever.
With all the inventive, daredevil, envelope pushing cinema we have seen in the last few years, Steven Spielberg delivers a stale cold war thriller that is about as edgy and thrilling as a plastic knife. “Bridge of Spies” is Hanks and Spielberg’s fourth collaboration, but the first time the “Saving Private Ryan” director has worked
Each year the New York Film Festival showcases the magic that movies can make. This year’s 53rd edition offers a rich preview of films to anticipate later this fall as well as some important lessons for any moviemaker to consider. Take a look.
French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve caught my undivided attention with his thriller “Prisoners” (2013), portraying one of the darkest kidnapping scenarios in recent memory. Villeneuve explores even darker subject matter in his latest suspense thriller “Sicario” (meaning hitman in Mexico), that will make pudding out of any 2015 horror film. Its closest companion would
Fall Movie Season is here! Finally after all those endlessly lackluster summer movies, so loud and filled with mind-wasting special effects, it’s once again, time for the good stuff.
The End of the Tour: What an extremely well crafted film! Usually, I’m disinclined toward movies that are primarily of two people having a conversation, but this is a notable exception where David Foster Wallace (Segal), a celebrated novelist (Infinite Jest), is continually spilling out pearls of wisdom when he is being interviewed for five
Until now I had never found the cinematic creations of Sherlock Holmes very interesting. Robert Downey Jr’s modern, action packed, version of the fictional detective is the most recent mainstream version seen on the big screen. However, Academy Award winner Bill Condon (Gods & Monsters, Kinsey) directs the most human version of the character I
The moment Love & Mercy goes from a moderately interesting film occurs gently. Here I thought the musical biopic had sung its last note, then producer turned director Bill Pohlad offers up something systematically different by way of the editing room and perfect casting. The real strong point of Love & Mercy is the trio
I doubt audiences will be lining up to see a film about a widowed 70 year old, pondering life’s cruel reasons for her loneliness. It’s their loss if they don’t, I’ll See You In My Dreams is not only charming and delightful, it’s the three dimension lead role Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents) has been
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s follow-up to The Hunt, isn’t as comprehensively impressive or haunting. Yet Far From the Madding Crowd is one summer remake I can get behind. Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan (Drive, An Education) returns to her natural element in the latest period piece revival. Far From the Madding Crowd is one of many