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December 2015

December 05, 2015

A GLBTQ Movie Season

GLBTQ Movies Have Become More Prevalent at Festivals -- Will Mainstream Audiences Ever Embrace Them?

September 2015

September 17, 2015

Honor Thy Father (Matti, 2015)

The first hour of Erik Matti's Honor Thy Father (★★★★) is so good, so steeped...

September 13, 2015

TIFF 2015 — Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Koreeda)

Our Little Sister (★★★★★) is a special film, one that I will return to before...

September 12, 2015

TIFF 2015 — The Martian (Ridley Scott)

It should not have been that hard, I think, to make a fully satisfying film...

June 2015

June 20, 2015

3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets — Lucia McBath Interview

“I have forgiven Michael Dunn,” Lucy McBath says when questioned about the man who murdered...

May 2015

May 14, 2015

Our Man in Tehran (Taylor and Weinstein, 2013)

The remarkable thing about Our Man in Tehran is its ability (much like Rory Kennedy's...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Homeless (Hassler, 2015)

If the quickest metric of a directorial debut is to which films it invites comparison,...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (Benson, 2013)

Eleanor Rigby's conceit—I'm tempted to say "gimmick"—is that it shows their two stories back to...

March 19, 2015

SXSW 2015 — GTFO: Get the F&#% Out

For women who refuse to sit on the sidelines and let men decide what jobs...

March 13, 2015

SXSW 2015 — Unfriended

A group of cyber friends are terrorized by an anonymous user who may be the...

November 2014

November 12, 2014

DamNation (Knight and Rummel, 2014)

At first the film looks like it might turn into a standard taking sides/issue film,...

October 2014

October 12, 2014

Still the Water (Kawase, 2014)

In a film filled with contrasts, finding quiet by traveling into the eye of the...

September 2014

September 11, 2014

TIFF 2014 — Love & Mercy

I love art, including music. My life has been enriched by it. But I will...

September 10, 2014

Video: TIFF 2014 — The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game can't decide if it wants to be about Alan Turing's life or...

September 08, 2014

Video: TIFF 2014 Reviews — Backcountry

A video review of Backcountry, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

September 07, 2014

TIFF 2014: The Sound and the Fury

Nearly everything in the lead up to The Sound and the Fury's (★★★) North American...

September 06, 2014

Video: TIFF 2014 Reviews — Gemma Bovery

An entertaining update on Madame Bovary, adapted from Posy Simmonds's graphic novel.

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Video: Five Films to Look for from the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival starts later this week. Here are five films we're looking...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

Film Fest DC — 2014

If 2014 is, as has been rumored, the final year of Film Fest DC, the...

April 22, 2014

White Lies (Rotberg, 2013)

That's probably one reason why there are so few genuinely engaging movies about abortion. Most...

April 08, 2014

We Don’t Need No Education…or Do We? — Full Frame Day 3

It's not surprising then that a trio of films from this year's festival look at...

February 2014

February 04, 2014

TIFF 2013: Last of the Unjust and Mission Congo

Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah is sui generis, a universally respected nine and-a-half hour documentary that may...

November 2013

November 23, 2013

The Armstrong Lie (Gibney, 2013)

A person--doesn’t have to be a friend of yours necessarily, just someone you know or...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Thanks for Sharing (Blumberg, 2012)

Long before the soundtrack rhapsodizes about "tender comrades" in the film's final scene, Thanks for...

September 16, 2012

Room 237 (Ascher, 2012)

In the picture above do you see: a) a scene from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining?;...

September 15, 2012

Artifact (Cubbins, 2012)

Given the target audience's love for Jared Leto and Thirty Seconds to Mars, the built...

September 11, 2012

To the Wonder (Malick, 2012)

I didn't hate To The Wonder. I didn't much like it, but for me and...

September 11, 2012

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (Gibney, 2012)

During a Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival, Alex Gibney opined that the inference...

September 09, 2012

Argo (Affleck, 2012)

I approached Argo with a certain amount of trepidation since it depicted events very close...

August 2012

August 10, 2012

The Law in These Parts (Alexandrowicz 2011)

What is the difference been "occupied" and "held" territories?