One of the films that redeemed this film festival for me is ‘When I Saw You (2012)‘, written and directed by Annemarie Jacir. This film...
‘House With A Turret‘, directed by Eva Neymann, is a film about a boy traveling with his sick mother to visit his grandfather. Based on...
Latvian director Janis Nords’ gripping Mother, I Love You is remarkably similar to 2012′s unforgettable The Kid with a Bike. Both foreign films structure their narratives...
Black civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs is one of the most intelligent and energetic 97-year-old women to ever grace the screen. Every second that...
Clearly inspired by Richard Linklater’s cult-classic coming-of ager Dazed and Confused (1993), Alexander Mirecki’s feature directorial debut, All Together Now, hardly makes a case for itself...
David Lowery’s moody, meditative outlaw narrative transcends its basic premise and familiar genre with a subtle poetic hand as muted as the vast and beautiful...
The most efficient marketing tool is the human voice. It’s familiar, relatable, and can sound like the voice of God when amplified to an authoritative...
‘Winter In The Blood‘, directed by Alex and Andrew J. Smith, is a film is about a confused Native American searching for his future while...
The psychedelic harmoniousness of the 1960s lives on in Sebastián Silva’s indelibly sweet Crystal Fairy. Filmed in only two weeks, this South American road trip...
Before Werner Herzog signed on as executive producer for Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn’s provocatively titled documentary out of Denmark, Norway and the UK, he...
Traveling along the same vibe as ‘The Campaign‘ (2012), ‘I’m So Excited‘, created by Pedro Almodovar, is a raunchy comedy about a dramatic flight crew...
Not since David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive has there been a film as downright weird as Peter Strickland’s pseudo-horror film, Berberian Sound Studio. Paying homage to...
Set in the rural lands of Germany, ‘The Wall‘ (MBox), also known as ‘Die Wand‘ is about a woman who fights to survive when an...
Not even the coldest of hearts can resist the affable charm of monster-duo Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan (Billy Crystal and John Goodman, respectively),...
Most of the time when discussing actors who make the transition to directing, writers like myself tend to focus on the dramas that the actors...
Man of Steel might be one of a long line of superhero reinventions, reboots, and re-imaginings, but it could also be called by another name, a...
For multiple reasons, I don’t drink alcohol nearly as much as your average male in his mid to almost late 20′s (just ask Terence, he...
I can definitely see what Oscar winning screenwriter turned filmmaker Geoffrey Fletcher was shooting for (no pun intended) with his directorial debut Violet & Daisy....
I can’t quite decide if the magic themed crime thriller Now You See Me is better or worse than it was intended. On the one...
