by Brandon Colvin Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy marks the crest of a recent wave of profound minimalist filmmaking that has dominated th...

by Jacob Shoaf The odds have been stacked in favor of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt from the beginning. In front of the camera, there’s Mer...

by Brandon Colvin Why is Slumdog Millionaire an overrated piece of middlebrow, pseudo-liberal, ultimately despicable crap? A: It is politic...

Recently selected as Nathan Lee's #1 film (er, video) of 2008, Jean Luc Godard's minute-long festival trailer (entitled Une Catastro...

Updating the 1975 Roger Corman cult film Death Race 2000 and building on the premonitions of Network and The Running Man , the new Death R...

The first (and hopefully last) film ever rated PG-13 to focus on a Playboy bunny who moves into a sorority and sluts up some outsider (aka- ...

With cinematic (re)emergences this year from Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and Claude Chabrol, you may look at your calendar and think it to...

Thoughts? Reactions? I tend to like Spike Lee, although I found Inside Man a bit too standard. This seems to be a pretty typical war movie,...

The second best movie this year revolving around people brutally committing suicide, Mirrors , directed by Alexandre Aja, is plenty crazy en...

The latest production from Judd Apatow and His Band of Hilarious Motherfuckers, Pineapple Express , is a willfully genre-bending work compri...

Despite its relative predictability, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Frozen River succeeds mainly because its simple is propelled by an ex...

Though Ken Jacobs’s Razzle Dazzle is being considered significant in the switch to digital filmmaking, a claim enhanced by the status of it...

The Dark Knight has one tremendous problem; a tight-jawed, muscular, suave, caped-crusading problem: it’s protagonist. That’s right, the gl...

After the lovable exploits of Remy the rat were immortalized by Pixar in their previous film Ratatouille , I thought they had scaled their t...

It is a rare occurrence for me to leave a movie theater and to immediately be ecstatically ready to return to the same film for a second vie...

A couple of months ago, word started getting around about Martijn Hendriks’ project Give Us Today Our Daily Terror ; a project which removed...