Looking Forward to New Characters in 2016
Will 2016, with its over-abundance of sequels on the horizon (Ride Along 2, Kung Fu Panda 3, Alice Through the …
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Hateful Eight
Critics have been tripping over themselves to draw comparisons between grindmeister Quentin Tarantino and the great mystery writer Agatha Christie, …
The Narrative and Philosophical Maturity of ‘Youth’
Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian writer-director behind 2013 Best Foreign Language Academy Award-winner The Great Beauty, breaks narratives and lives down …
The Top Films of 2015
Let’s get right to it. Youth – Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino, who won the Foreign Language Oscar for The Great …
Hitchcock/Truffaut
For this documentary, Kent Jones, former film critic and programming director with the New York Film Festival, gathered filmmakers to …
The Muse and the Modern Bard
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth gets a fascinating visual reinterpretation thanks to Justin Kurzel, an Australian neophyte with only one previous feature …
Simien’s Femmes Step Up in Their Latest Projects
Justin Simien set his explosive dramedy Dear White People on a fictional Ivy League campus and purported to focus on …
The Future of Art House Theaters and Film Festivals in the Queen City
In 2008, a restaurant explosion began in Over-the-Rhine’s Gateway Quarter on Vine Street with Lavomatic, which has been replaced by …
‘Creed’ Spins Off into It’s Own Glorious Orbit
Right away, Ryan Coogler lets us know that we’re in good and special hands with Creed, his Rocky spinoff that …
Brooklyn
As a fundamental aspect of the American Dream, we remake ourselves, but we also redefine the meaning of home, too. …
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