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- Movie | July 11, 2014
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
If you, like millions of others, plan on heading into Dawn of the Planet of the Apes this weekend ready to gobble up yet another action-heavy summer mega movie, expect to get way more than you bargained for: Dawn is a sophisticated, emotional picture that explores...
- Movie | July 11, 2014
Code Black
Ryan McGarry’s Code Black, an engrossing documentary about one of the busiest emergency rooms in the country, revolves around the idea that patient-doctor intimacy is a key factor in saving lives, and this intimacy is something the medical industry is quickly...
- News | July 9, 2014
A Family Leaves Home to Explore the World in The Nomadic Family Project
It’s an exciting time right now in the wonderful world of crowdfunding. I mean, it doesn’t get much more bonkers than a potato salad Kickstarter which, as of this writing, has raked in a mind-numbing $71,540, right? I know how...
- Interview | July 8, 2014
‘Life Itself’ Director Steve James Feels Lucky to Have Been With Roger in His Last Days
Timeless sports docu Hoop Dreams was famously one of Roger Ebert’s favorite films. It’s fitting, then, that its director, Steve James, is the man behind Life Itself, a stirring collection of memories from Roger and his loved ones woven together to give...
- Movie | July 4, 2014
Hellion
Boasting grimy imagery, a primal, tightly-written script, and a breakout performance by a promising young newcomer, Kat Candler’s Hellion–an expansion of her 2012 short that tore up the festival circuit–is the best juvenile delinquent film since last year’s indie darling, Destin...
- Movie | July 4, 2014
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent changed the face of fashion on numerous occasions, innovating through design, expanding the horizons of the art form like few else in the 20th century. Alas, Jalil Lespert’s tribute to the man, Yves Saint Laurent, finds itself constricted...
- Movie | July 4, 2014
Le Chef
For a film about the culinary arts, a world driven by passion, sweat, and sleepless nights, Le Chef is so careless and uninspired it’s borderline upsetting. What’s worse, it fails twofold as a comedy, going for the cheapest, most worn-out gags...
- Interview | July 3, 2014
Brian Knappenberger Talks ‘Internet’s Own Boy’ (Part 2)
Brian Knappenberger’s The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz follows the late tech activist’s journey from child programming prodigy to being labeled a felon by the U.S. government, a legal nightmare eventually led to him taking his...
- Interview | July 3, 2014
Kat Candler and Josh Wiggins Talk ‘Hellion’
An expansion of Kat Candler’s 2012 short film of the same name, Hellion, starring Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis, and newcomer Josh Wiggins, follows a family in Souteast Texas reeling from the loss of their mother. Wiggins plays 13-year-old Jacob, an...
- Movie | July 2, 2014
Begin Again
Following the success of Once, director John Carney was afforded a bigger budget and bigger stars to help him in making Begin Again, his follow-up to the eminently popular music-romance mashup. The result is a delightful, breezy movie that’ll please...
- Movie | July 2, 2014
Deliver Us From Evil
The Bronx is turned into a funhouse of jump scares and buddy cop banter in Deliver Us From Evil, a loose adaptation of Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie, a former NYPD detective who left the force to enter the creepy world of demonology. Fans of the exorcism subgenre...
- Interview | July 1, 2014
Brian Knappenberger Talks ‘The Internet’s Own Boy’ (Part 1)
Brian Knappenberger’s The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz follows the late tech activist’s journey from child programming prodigy to being labeled a felon by the U.S. government, a legal nightmare eventually led to him taking his own...
- Movie | June 27, 2014
Third Person
The sheer ambition on display in Third Person, from Crash writer-director Paul Haggis, is staggering and admirable without question. It’s actually a very, very rare thing to behold, with Haggis carefully constructing an intricately woven ensemble love story set in three...
- Interview | June 27, 2014
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin Talk ‘Citizen Koch’
Bewildered by the results of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which resulted in corporations and labor unions being allowed to spend as much money as they wanted to fund political endeavors, filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin...
- Movie | June 27, 2014
Korengal
One of the greatest films about war of all time, 2010’s gripping documentary Restrepo, co-directed by Sebastian Junger and the late Tim Hetherington (who was killed covering the Libyan civil war in 2011), brought attention to the conflict in Afghanistan...