Mr. Turner is a film by one English master about another – filmmaker Mike Leigh depicting the great Romantic painter JMW Turner, in Leigh’s opinion the greatest of all English painters, who brought a new intelligence to landscapes and nautical scenes …Read more
Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja opens in the middle of the Patagonian desert where we meet Danish Captain Gunnar Dinesen (Viggo Mortensen) and his daughter Ingeborg (Viilbjørk Malling Agger) who are traveling towards a destination unknown to us. Ingeborg has …Read more
Never one to shy away from some controversy, Abel Ferrara made a film about the last twenty four hours in the life of Italian renaissance man Pier Paolo Pasolini. His murder in 1975 remains one of the most mysterious in all of the twentieth century, …Read more
If you’ve only given a cursory glance to movie listings lately and are confused to see The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him/Her released so soon after The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, it’s not a sequel, rather Him and Her are two more or …Read more
St. Vincent tells a familiar story: two unlikely heroes come together, abrasively at first, but ultimately to their mutual benefit. You can certainly gather that much from the film’s trailer alone, and the film is marketed exactly for what it is, tho …Read more
Valentine (Kristen Stewart) balances herself inside a noisy train car as she holds her phone, she rolls her eyes, sighs and offers monotonous responses to the person on the other end and we understand this is but one of many similar calls she’s had t …Read more
Philip Lewis Friedman is an asshole. Quite simply, he might be one of the most obnoxious characters to appear in any film, and Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip doesn’t shy away from letting the man be who he is, even if his behavior can be rather m …Read more
“There are no two words in the English language that are more harmful than ‘good job’” explains music professor Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) as a justification for the violent, extreme didactic methods he uses with his students at a conservatory touted as …Read more
Simply put, Last Hijack is the film Captain Phillips should have been. Where the latter turned a group of Somali pirates into one-dimensional Hollywood villains designed to threaten the all-American-goodness of Tom Hanks, the former goes beyond the s …Read more
In Two Days, One Night, the Dardenne brothers combine the mythical structure of an epic quest, with the social commentary that has become their trademark. When the film opens we meet Sandra (Marion Cotillard), a young mother returning to work on a Fr …Read more
