Alfred Hitchcock starts off his American filmmaking career with a bang. "Rebecca" is an indelible achievement in moviemaking history, and one whose legacy will live on for decades to come
"Into the Woods" is a safer, simpler adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s seminal musical, but Rob Marshall’s family-friendly film is still a fun and moving musical with strong performances.
With over fifty films in his canon (and, to much confusion, similarly titled) delving into the director dubbed “too Japanese” for the world can be a daunting task. Ozu has long since been regarded as the most prolific of Asian directors and his work has been discussed by scholars and fans alike.
Despite the inspired casting of legendary filmmaker James Benning, Jon Jost’s Coming to Terms is a baffling misfire on every conceivable level, resulting in not only the year’s worst film, but one of the worst film’s in recent memory.
I Touched All Your Stuff is an entertaining and funny documentary that functions less as a retelling of true events and more as an exercise in deceit and the inherent phoniness of a documentary film.
Both The Guests and Wire Fence are interesting forays into experimental reappropriation, but only one is mildly successful. The other is overlong, tedious, and occasionally obnoxious.
A group of young women load onto a coach bus and drive into the Israeli desert at the start of this would-be college comedy directed by Talya Lavie. But instead of college, or a summer camp, the bus is headed to a remote military base where the girls are reluctantly lazing their way through a […]
Drained completely of the innovation that made [Rec] a quintessential part of the horror genre, [Rec] 4 disappoints, making the death of the series very welcome.
