Film festival finds humor in discarded clips
Two friends turn their passion for retro videotape recordings into a thriving comedy show-film fest hybrid, the Found Footage Festival.
Film depicts poetic, post-apocalyptic world
One of the great truths in Japanese film and television is that giant robots are rarely just that.
Cody’s latest film undermines her ‘Body’ of work
Nearly two years ago, a screenplay appeared on the Internet that had every screenwriting nerd blogging with fervor.
Anything but the truth in Soderbergh’s newest film
Matt Damon has an identity problem. In The Talented Mr. Ripley, his naïve sycophant Tom Ripley turns into a remorseless murderer. In the Bourne trilogy, his former assassin Jason Bourne struggles with his disjointed past.
Film serves up humor for audiences young and old
In a city that has perfect weather, sometimes you just want it to rain. But when it does, it is not typically in the same fashion as in the animated film Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. The action-packed film, based on the children’s book of the same name, tells the story of a weather […]
Indie film fails to find comedic identity
Though White on Rice’s deceptive title suggests a stereotype-ridden culture comedy, this indie flick is an equal opportunity workplace of family, romance and slice-of-life humor.
Film evens out melodrama before it all goes Bad
It takes a confused director to make a film like I Can Do Bad All By Myself. Tyler Perry, who is the world’s most bankable drag queen as the legendary and legendarily crass old woman Madea, seems to be just that type of person. Perry, the famous filmmaker whose review-proof films are consistent hits within […]
Doc uncovers man behind Mickey Mouse empire
We live in a time when Walt Disney’s name is linked to everything from theme parks to mouse ears. But people often forget that the name belonged to a true artist and a man who worked hard — and imagined even harder — to lay the building blocks of what has now become a magnificent […]
Performances shine despite lackluster direction
A seemingly happy marriage of more than 20 years ends with an adulterous wife who disappears, leaving her loving husband to discover the identity of her lover and travel across the country to befriend the man in order to gain justice. The plot itself sounds like either a gut-wrenching, anti-love story or a psychologically jarring […]
Foreign film highlights true brutalities of war
Forget Tarantino and his Basterds — the real ruthless Nazi killers of World War II can be found in the Danish import Flame & Citron. Based on the actual story of two Danish resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Denmark who come to be known as Flame and Citron, the film chronicles the efforts and accomplishments in […]