While We’re Young
Writer-director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) sets out in his latest film, While We’re Young, to skewer the pretensions and First …
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Art and Identity, Lost and Found in ‘Woman in Gold’
Much investigation has gone into the issue of Nazi art theft during World War II, with grand efforts made to …
Indie Horror Reinvigorates the Genre
“No one seems to understand,” Meshell Ndegeocello sings on “La Petite Mort” from her 2011 release Weather. She continues, “I …
Merchants of Doubt
I thoroughly appreciate the conceit that documentary director Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) uses to introduce his latest feature — Merchants …
Period Thriller ’71’ Runs All Night Through Belfast
Streets don’t get much meaner than those of Belfast back in 1971 as the British army all but occupied the …
The Evolution of a Shooter: Pierre Morel and ‘The Gunman’
Movie taglines boast new productions being “From the director of Taken” or “From the cinematographer of The Transporter,” but how …
It Follows
Following (pun intended) on the heels of writer-director Jennifer Kent’s mesmerizing horror reinvention The Babadook comes another relative multi-hyphenate newbie …
A View From the Couch: White Male Anxiety
I found myself tuning out a specious subset of the diversity debate regarding the most recent Academy Awards. We spent …
Characters Make the ‘Second’ Stay Worth the Trip
During the first installment of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, we spent time with Graham Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson), a withdrawn …
David Cronenberg ‘Maps’ Out His Perverse History Onscreen
David Cronenberg’s biographic listing on IMDB refers to him as “the King of Venereal Horror” or “the Baron of Blood,” …
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