This has been an incredible year for black history in film, and another beautiful film joins that welcome cluster. Director Just Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) is no stranger to historical pictures, and while his Mandela picture isn’t the sleekest and well rounded piece of cinema, it’s still a beautiful telling of an amazing story […]
What appeared to me like a light hearted “human interest” story, as the film refers, is actually full of heart and quite emotional when it gets down to it. Philomena is based on an extraordinary true story that is partly worth telling due to the type of circumstances one just can’t make up. Oscar winner
I can understand why this is being called a film equivalent to a middle aged erotic paperback novel. I can even understand why the majority of the public won’t want to have anything to do with this film. From the director of Coco Before Chanel, French filmmaker Anne Fontaine has adapted a very provocative story
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
James Franco will never be the actor that people think of him as; he is this artistic unit that chases projects that stand by themselves and have lots of people scratching their heads. Of course, Franco has the big budget Oz the Great and Powerful to satisfy those unaware of these small projects he dabbles
What is so frustrating is that hoards of people are watching Fast & Furious 6 or This is the End instead of watching something smart, sexy and really interesting like The East. I had the chance to speak with co-writer, producer and star of The East, Brit Marling, at this year’s SXSW. She delivers her
The rumor was that 20 people walked out of the premiere for The Wait at SXSW. I can’t attest to that, but at the final screening I witnessed five people leave before the end. The Wait isn’t a good movie by any argument, but certainly not the worst at SXSW. However, this is the second
Fast & Furious star Paul Walker leaves behind his fast cars and macho attitude to take on a role that is quite enduring; continuing the SXSW theme of unimpressive actors taking on roles that challenge them. Still set up as a thriller, Hours has Walker nearly on screen the entire film talking to himself and
It might look, feel and sound like a feature film, but Spring Breakers is more of a joke than a movie. Opening and sprinkled throughout are long scenes of spring break partying with drinking, shaking, sexing, and all those horrible things we associate with that week-long celebration in March. Writer and director Harmony Korine (Kids)
Written and directed by Joe Swanberg (V/H/S), Drinking Buddies could have been staged much like last years In Our Nature, a film about two couples interacting together. However, this unscripted improve takes a turn for the interesting and puts Olivia Wilde (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone) in front of her best character and, in turn, performance