Kris Swanberg rightfully fancies herself as far more than the wife of illustrious mumblecore director Joe Swanberg. She is a filmmaker in her own right. Though she may still be perfecting her craft. With her third film, Unexpected, the female Swanberg sought to thoughtfully divorce “pregnancy films” from the comedic context that it’s been hedged...
Though lacking on original dramatic upper cuts, Southpaw offers a bevy of excellent performances from its more than game cast. But with a share of technical errors behind the camera,…
Sam Mendes turned heads with 2012’s Skyfall, crafting a new fan favorite while resetting the clock on some of 007’s most iconic characters. After experiencing some production drama under the auspices of Sony’s indelicate hand – reportedly going over-budget and taking a cut from the Mexican film commission to shoot the film’s iconic opening set...
There’s more effort here than in most Adam Sandler movies but Pixels’ half-baked 80s video-game-cum-invasion-movie still mostly reeks of jack-assery.
The great thing about Netflix is that it gives you a lot of TV and movie watching options. The bad thing about Netflix is that it gives you…a lot of TV and movie watching options. To cut down on your Netflix search and discover time, Netfix aims to ease the process of parsing the good...
*This is a reprint of our 2015 SXSW coverage. 2015 is shaping up to be the year of the great rom-com as Judd Apatow‘s Trainwreck is the third great romantic comedy or romantic comedy drama (or romantic dramedy) that I’ve seen this year – the other two being Adult Beginners and Sleeping With Other People....
Considered a "work in progress", at two hours, Trainwreck is already more trim than most Apatow films - his last two films clocked in at 134 and 153 minutes -…
All the authenticity The Stanford Prison Experiment brings to the table establishes an alarming, visceral sense of reality but is also accountable for a skosh of its failures. Because of…
With unprecedented access to an evolving cartel v. vigilante situation on the US-Mexican border, director Matthew Heineman found himself on the front lines of a war that’s been brewing for decades in Cartel Lands. Told through the lens of two vigilante group leaders, Dr. José Manuel Mireles of the Mexican Autodefensas and Tim “Nailer” Foley...
As the agents of genocide repeat "The past is past", the delicacy of Indonesia's current political balance becomes a focal point of fiercely high intensity. At one point, a politician…