Jim Jarmusch’s new revisionist vampire film, “Only Lovers Left Alive,” opens with a beautiful series of shots that reveal the whole film.  Spinning stars fill the screen, then a spinning record, then the stars Swinton and Hiddleston, laying stone sti …Read more

Dorothy (Lea Michele) has just returned from Oz and her sidekicks are already in trouble again! Time in the magical land moves at a different speed than time in Kansas and as Dorothy is barely coming to terms with the destruction left behind by the t …Read more

When James Franco isn’t acting, directing, being an erudite student in multiple universities, insulting theater critics or coming up with new methods of self-promotion, he’s writing poetry and fiction. In 2010 he published a collection of short stori …Read more

“I feel like Pinocchio and it kills me,” says Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), the painfully timid worker-bee of “The Double”. It’s one of the only lines that computes. Inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novella of the same name, “The Double” is set …Read more

Kenji Mizoguchi is a director’s director long admired by other filmmakers for his formal mastery over a long career, and is considered, along with Ozu and Kurosawa, to be among the holy trinity of Japanese directors.  Yet his name is growing increasi …Read more

There is something dark about “Living Things” that benefits from the idea of meat and flesh. This is made significant in the film when Leo, the father-in-law, attempts to murder Rhona, the yoga teacher, who is also his daughter-in-law.  Leo says, “I’ …Read more

Brutal, powerful, and compassionate, “Starred Up,” directed by David Mackenzie and starring Jack O’Connell takes its place amongst the best prison films of all time.  O’Connell plays Eric Love, and the film opens with him being inducted into a new pr …Read more

Nine-year-old Junior (Samuel Lange) wants nothing more than to have his hair straightened for his school picture, but his mother Marta (Samantha Castillo) sees this is a sign of defiance. While the boy recurs to rudimentary methods to get rid of his …Read more

Robin Williams gives one of his finest performances in years in Dito Montiel’s “Boulevard” which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. In the film he plays Nolan, a bank employee who comes to the sudden realization that he’s unhappy with almos …Read more

The energy of legendary underground filmmakers like Stan Brakhage and Robert Downey Sr. thrives with new life in director Andrew T. Betzer’s “Young Bodies Heal Quickly”, in which two nameless brothers (Gabriel Croft plays the Older, Hale Lytle the Yo …Read more