One of my favorite documentaries of 2016 was also about one of my personal heroes from way back. The film is director Steven Okazaki’s Mifune: The Last Samurai about the […]
Much like the memoir that inspired it, Notes on Blindness (from co-directors James Spinney and Peter Middleton) attempts the seemingly impossible, especially for a visual art form: to capture the […]
There are children’s films, and then there are films with children in them that seem more geared toward adults. Spanish-born director J.A. Bayona seems to specialize in the latter, with […]
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese has spent most of his career presenting us with characters who, in any other movie, might be looked upon as the bad guys. But he gets us […]
I’m the damn fool who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… list every year, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about […]
My formative years were spent on nerdy endeavors. As such, while other 13-year-old girls were obsessed with boys, clothes and makeup, I was lost in space. I’d found Star Wars, […]
The debut feature from director Garth Davis (who helmed most episodes of the excellent series “Top of the Lake”) feels like it was designed in a laboratory for the express […]
There are films that simply know how to make an audience happy, and there are those that shamelessly manipulate a crowd into trying to feel something to the point of […]
I’m not sure if it’s the best news or the worst that no one to date has turned a play written by the late August Wilson into a movie for […]
In the harrowing, true-life story that spans nearly 30 years, In Her Name tells the story of Andre Bamberski (the great French king of angst, Daniel Auteuil), who finds out […]
If you’re a James Franco completist (and honestly, who amongst us isn’t?), then you know this can be a tiring occupation at times. In 2016 alone, the man acted in […]
Before we go any further, let’s make one thing clear. This review contains spoilers. Proceed with caution. I’ll never quite understand the mentality that dictates that you can only like […]