DVD Review: I Am Number Four, Gnomeo and Juliet, Passion Play and Burning Palms
Back in the day, Bill Cosby’s “Leonard Part 6” didn’t have much luck introducing itself to audiences as an original product with a higher integer in its title, and the…
Spork Movie Review 2
Title: Spork Director: J.B. Ghuman, Jr. Starring: Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park, Rachel Fox, Michael Arnold, Sydney Park, Beth Grant, Oana Gregory, Chad Allen, Yeardley Smith The laboriously quirky low-fi coming-of-age…
Blank City Movie Review
Title: Blank City Director: Celine Danhier Featuring: Steve Buscemi, Fab 5 Freddy, Jim Jarmusch, Deborah Harry, John Lurie, Thurston Moore, John Waters, Susan Seidelman, Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, Ann Magnuson…
Make Believe: The Battle to Become the World’s Best Teen Magician Movie Review
Title: Make Believe: The Battle to Become the World’s Best Teen Magician Director: J. Clay Tweel Featuring: Krysten Lambert, Bill Koch, Hiroki Hara, Derek McKee, Siphiwe Fangase, Skumbuzo Nkonyana For…
We Are the Night Movie Review
Title: We Are the Night Director: Dennis Gansel Starring: Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer, Max Riemelt Base-line expectations, just as in real life, can sometimes be a…
The Abduction of Zack Butterfield Movie Review 2
Title: The Abduction of Zack Butterfield Director: Rick Lancaster Starring: Brett Helsham, T.J. Plunkett, Lisa Gunn, Aaron Letrick, Stephen Ryder, Celine de Tertre One of the downsides of the digital…
Interview: Lesley Manville Talks Another Year
Few performances in 2010 were as difficult to watch as Lesley Manville’s turn in Mike Leigh’s “Another Year”. A Razzie nominee, you ask? No, far from it. Tabbed by various…
DVD Review: The Roommate, Bhutto and The Illusionist
Teenagedom and early adolescence is many things, but it’s perhaps chiefly characterized by a crazy hormonal swirl and the feeling that everything matters so deeply and acutely, and hasn’t been…
How To Live Forever Movie Review
Title: How to Live Forever Director: Mark Wexler Featuring: Suzanne Somers, Jack Lalanne, Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller and more Aging, if we’re lucky, is something that happens to all us.…