Texas filmmaker David Lowery’s latest film is an experiment. It’s an artistic endeavor, it’s risky, it requires everything from the viewer and only gives you something in return if you let it. A Ghost Story however doesn’t work as a cinematic feature, at least not in the traditional sense of a customer buying a ticket […]
Mine creates one of the most gut wrenching, impossible situations I’ve seen on cinema in a long time. The suspense in the first 26 minutes that leads us to a devastating situation is everything you expect from an action film putting the lead in dire circumstances. The big question is what happens next? You still
Having somehow unintentionally evaded 29-year-old Xavier Dolan’s previous acclaimed four films (he is already an 8 time Cannes award winner, and twice nominated for The Palm d’Or); Nothing can prepare the viewer for his latest It’s Only the End of the World. One of the nine finalists in consideration for the Academy Awards Foreign Film,
The South American perspective of Jackie Kennedy is apparently similar to a horror movie seen through the eyes of director Pablo Larraín. In his first English language film, the 40-year-old surprisingly molds Jackie in the same structure of fellow Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others (2001). The vicious editing choices paired with the savage musical
Perhaps screenwriter James Vanderbilt learned what not to do while working on White House Down (to his credit he also worked on the Zodiac screenplay), because his directorial debut Truth is quite a provocative piece of cinema. Truth dramatizes the events that led to the departure of CBS evening news anchor Dan Rather and
Driving from the island to Dallas isn’t a fun drive – in fact, it’s the longest trip this film critic makes in the car. Last year was my first time attending The Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF), which originated in 2006. “It is our mission to encourage this universal art form by bringing to Dallas
Films with one actor on screen for the entire duration seem to be gaining in popularity. In 2013, Gravity was a success while All is Lost was a failure. Most of the films with just one actor on screen exist within the thriller or action genre (Cast Away, Phone Booth), but Locke, as tense as
Most of the time it’s difficult to determine whether James Franco is making fun of a subject he is studying or if he is truly interested in promoting the psychology of a character. Child of God is the latest film adapted from the words of Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men, The Road) and
I would imagine this is one of the most difficult bestselling books to be adapted in the past few years. As we continue the 2014 religious theme, Heaven is for Real is the only one of the major releases set in modern times. Based on the book by Todd Burpo, a preacher in small town
The Dallas International Film Festival opened with the new film Words and Pictures, which really displays a nice argument between which art form is more powerful and important. Of course this isn’t just about an English teacher and an Art teacher having what the students call “A War.” The characters are well written and highly