Life Itself Review
I would like to think somewhere Gene and Roger are having a hell of a time debating the artistic merits of this film, would give two thumbs up just to that debate. As I have…
Boyhood Q and A with Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane
At my screening, at Landmark Theater at Kendall Square, of Richard Linklater’s phenomenal and moving Boyhood stars Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane showed up for a Q and A after the screening. Their insight into the unique…
Boyhood Review
Like my fellow blogger and friend Alex Withrow likes to say he wants to watch a movie and be able to say to himself “Someone gets it”. Richard Linklater and company get it.12 years, one…
T.V Show Review: The Americans Season 2
Finally a network show that didn’t suffer from the dreaded sophomore slump. Last year The Americans was a surprisingly engaging cold-war throw-back spy thriller show from FX that introduced great characters, good old-fashioned espionage and relationship dynamics.…
Nymphomaniac (Vol. 1 & 2) Review
On this edition of when a Director lets himself get in the way of telling a story… We open in typical Lars Von Trier style with a woman beaten nearly to death lies half-dead in…
Film
A Chameleon Departs: Eli Wallach, 1915-2014
After a nearly a six decade long career in film, veteran character actor Eli Wallach passed away today at the ripe old…
Overlooked Outliers: Polytechnique (2009)
One university, one deranged shooter, three lives, no psychoanalysis, no…
Q and A Session with Under the Skin’s Director and Producer
At a special screening, at the wonderful Coolidge Corner theater,…
Scenery Theory: Goodfellas and The Trend-Line of 1990′s Cinema
Let’s wind the clocks a few decades back shall we?…
Movie Reviews
The Rover Review
With two great Doppelgänger themed films released earlier this year, it seems only fitting that two awesomely unique existential road trip movies…
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My Ten Favorite Roger Ebert Movie Reviews
Today marks what would’ve been the late great influential film critic Roger Ebert’s 72nd birthday, and though he died just last year…
The Top 10 Performances By Animated Characters
Upon being so taken after seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind…
The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined the 1950′s: Top Ten
Before getting into the top ten here are the pervious…
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The Double Review
Two strangely sublime movies about men who have a physical double out there in world, released nearly back-to-back… the apocalypse is definitely upon us. Denis Villeneuve showed earlier this year how the Doppelgänger story could be adapted in an atmosphere of dread and mystery for…
The Raid 2: Berandal Review
In a vast seemingly endless barrage of broken bones, slices, dices, knives, hammers and baseball bats there in lies a method to the blood-soaked madness. Two years ago writer/director Gareth Evans released the Indonesian sleeper hit The Raid: Redemption an energetic violent old-school martial arts…
Walken Reviews: Edge of Tomorrow
Christopher Walken stops by to give his thoughts on the new Tom Cruise movie… Share it now!
Enemy Review
In Krzysztof Kieślowski’s masterpiece The Double Life of Veronique, Irene Jacob’s aspiring singer Weronika while living in Poland catches a glimpse of her doppleganger randomly passing by in the middle of a city square. She does a double-take, thinks of it as a strange occurrence and moves…
Jodorowsky’s Dune Review
A riddle for you: What do Alejandro Jodorowsky, H.R Giger, Salvador Dali, Pink Floyd, Mick Jagger, Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud, David Carradine and Orson Welles all have in common? Famously insane and engaging cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky wanted his forth feature film to change the game…
Independent Film Festival Boston: Locke Review
One man, one car, one cold, one highway, one night and many a dilemma to troubleshoot; all done with one tremendous actor. It all adds up in the cinematic universe. In Locke, Tom Hardy is the titular Ivan Locke, a family-man construction worker specializing in a major…
Particle Fever Review
It is the largest and most complex machine ever built by mankind, multitudes of countries and nationalities participated in its inception and creation, the internet was originally created to share the data from it, and up until six years ago we had no idea what…
The Unknown Known Review
Film evokes many different types and range of emotions for me, for the first time in long time it conjures up one that I don’t particularly like feeling… The great documentarian filmmaker Errol Morris, as he did with another notorious Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in…
Under the Skin Review
A woman, who looks an awful lot like Scarlett Johansson, pulls up next to you on the street corner in a white van, asks for directions, proceeds to somewhat flirt with you and asks you to come along with her in finding her destination, what…
The Grand Budapest Hotel Review
Agatha Christie via the lens of Wes Anderson, what else do I need to say? The specific pool of actors, flat camera angels, quick pans, color pallet, handwriting, chapter headings, soundtrack, and quirky characterizations are all the hallmarks of a Wes Anderson production. Unmistakable from…