Exclusively set aside for films made for under $20 million, the Independent Spirit Awards seeks to award the best of the best of films made on a shoestring budget. Even the original ISA statues themselves were made up of a glass pyramid encasing a shoestring – a paper-thin but elegant metaphor for the process of...
This week I set out to catch up with some of the early releases of 2013 that I missed and, surprise, surprise, was very underwhelmed. Not that I was expecting much revelatory from films like R.I.P.D. and White House Down but I was expecting at least a degree of fun that was largely absent. I...
Like a young Mick Jagger, Leonardo DiCaprio belts into a mic as the crowd goes wild in this first poser for Martin Scorsese‘s The Wolf of Wall Street. Playing disgraced one-percenter Jordan Belfort, Leo looks to bring his signature charisma and acting prowess to the role. Whether or not he’ll be able to slip into...
Rolling sharp comedy and painstaking commentary into one is no easy task, but it's one that Payne has all but mastered. Nebraska may not be as biting and manic as…
Odds are you could probably care less what DC decides to title their Man of Steel sequel, which is set to pit the near invisible Superman again a PTSD-suffering billionaire who dresses like a bat and wears a lot of black makeup, but the latest list of possible titles is sure to induce the slightest...
Arnie has had a bit of a tough go returning to the spotlight with his latest starring vehicles failing to open to a sum larger than $10 million on opening weekend, receiving rotten aggregate reviews, and failing to have much tenure at the box office. But up to this point, his post-gubernatorial films have mostly...
Discussion of events that occur in Gravity to follow so mild spoilers ahead. Originally developed as an added feature for the Blu-ray release, the overwhelming love for Gravity has seen this intiguring companion piece, simply titled Aningaaq, come out of the gates early, giving it a shot at an Oscar ”Live-Action Short” nominee. Written with the help of...
From A+ to F, the best and worst of 2013 (ranked by grade.)Her A+12 Years a Slave A+Before Midnight A+Dallas Buyers Club A+Lone Survivor A+ All is Lost ACaptain Phillips A Fruitvale Station AWhat Maisie Knew AThis is the End AOnly God Forgives A Inside Llewyn Davis A-The Hunt A-Out of the Furnace A-Nebraska A-Prisoners...
The latest full reviews for your reading pleasure. This Month: Inside Llewyn Davis A-Saving Mr. Banks C+ The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug C-Her A+Out of the Furance A-Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom D+ November: Frozen B+Philomena BNebraska A-The Hunger Games: Catching Fire C+Best Man Holiday D+ (Kyle)Blue is the Warmest Color C+The Book Thief...
Finally, fans of the source material will have little to complain about since the book is adapted to the T. But when all is said and done, it's just not…