Ladies and gentlemen, this is why we go to the movies. Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” is the kind of movie that is so good it makes you reevaluate your perception of cinema as an art form.  Hollywood has become such a well-oiled, blockbuster-producing, m …Read more

Few movies have ever used 3D as more than just a gimmick. To make all that added eye strain worth it, a 3D film should at least attempt to use that third dimension in a special way that connects with the plot. For instance, James Cameron’s “Avatar” m …Read more

Set in the world of professional dancing, Alan Brown’s “Five Dances” is a beautiful movie about finding yourself once you’re away from home. Broadway dancer Ryan Steele (“Matilda”, “Newsies”) makes his feature length debut as Chip, a young man recent …Read more

The works of 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer continue to confound modern art lovers. His uncanny ability to capture the nature of light is unparalleled; many consider it nearly impossible for someone living in the 1600s. And the mystery o …Read more

Alfonso Cuarón’s thriller “Gravity”, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as two astronauts stranded in outer space after their shuttle is destroyed, doesn’t officially open in theaters until Friday, but it’s already being hailed as “the best s …Read more

The New York Film Festival can never be accused of favoritism towards a particular type of cinema. You’ll find plenty of Oscar bait there, but you can also find opportunities to have some fun. The polar extremes of what the NYFF has to offer were on …Read more

CBS Mondays @ 8:30pm ET What’s it about? “We Are Men” is a single-camera comedy about four single guys living in a short-term apartment complex who unexpectedly find camaraderie over their many missteps in love. Carter, the youngest and most recent a …Read more

At the impressive age of 88, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann has the ability to muster more forceful passion than people six decades younger. In 1985 he released “Shoah”, a mammoth account of the Holocaust that took him eleven years to complete, the film w …Read more

Muscular male bodies warming up under the scorching sun of Southern France abound in “Stranger by the Lake”, Alain Guiraudie’s ode to Hitchcock, Foucault and “Jaws”. The film takes place in an unnamed lake used mainly as a cruising spot for men who s …Read more

On September 1, 2013, representatives of Studio Ghibli announced that Hayao Miyazaki – their founder and most famous filmmaker – would be retiring from directing feature length films after the release of “The Wind Rises”. With every Miyazaki film bei …Read more