The Gatekeepers
The commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War has re-introduced heated debate over the Bush …
Category Archives: Briefs
Admission
Paul Weitz sure has an interestingly off-kilter approach to material. Having kicked his directing career off with outrageous teen comedy …
Any Day Now
What happens when a sassy drag queen (Alan Cumming) and a buttoned up lawyer (Garret Dillahunt) seek to gain custody …
Stoker
In a dreamy bit of voiceover narration at the start, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) tells us, “We are not responsible …
West of Memphis
West of Memphis is one of those stories that we would like to believe can’t really be true. A monumental …
A Royal Affair
Niels Arcel, best known in the U.S. as one of the screenwriters on the original The Girl With the Dragon …
Promised Land
Fracking, the controversial process to used to release natural gas for collection, drives the narrative of the new Gus Van …
Anna Karenina
To fully appreciate what Joe Wright has wrought with his adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic tale of adultery among the …
Red Dawn
Based on the prevailing studio model in Hollywood, all remakes fail to pass any litmus test for the basic right …
Silver Linings Playbook
Family is a tricky proposition in the world of David O. Russell. Whether the ones we’re born into (Spanking the …
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