Ruby SparksBy Dustin Jansick From the directors of Little Miss Sunshine comes Ruby Sparks, a whimsical film about a struggling writer who falls in love with a character he makes up. The film...
Dead DadBy Dustin Jansick Ken J. Adachi’s indie drama Dead Dad reiterates that it is not the destination that matters most but the journey. The destination in this case was trying to find...
Memories of MurderBy Himanish Ashar Joon-ho Bong has pulled off a sensational 120 minutes of a film that you just can’t afford to miss. With mystery, distress and tension, Memories of Murder, comes close...
Room 237By Dustin Jansick It has been over 30 years since Stanley Kubrick blessed cinema with his Stephen King adaptation of The Shining but many people are still debating what the hidden meanings...
Killer JoeBy Blake Ginithan The first thing I did when I finished William Friedkin’s Killer Joe was take a shower. The film is up to its neck in grunge, sweat, dirt and blood....
Grave Encounters 2By C.J. Prince The Vicious Brothers’ Grave Encounters, a derivative horror movie that made good use of its abandoned asylum location, became something of a mini-hit when it came out last year....
Grave EncountersBy Blake Ginithan If nothing more, Grave Encounters is a fun romp through a couple of different sub genres. On one half you have the ‘found footage’ genre which is all the...
The MasterBy Dustin Jansick You will be hard pressed to find a film this year that is better acted or better crafted than Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. In Anderson’s sixth directorial film...
Keep The Lights OnBy C.J. Prince Ira Sachs’ Keep The Lights On is a fictional drama that has a deeply personal background to it. Sachs was in a long-term relationship with Bill Clegg, a literary...
Wednesday’s ChildBy Alex Firth “Meet nine-year-old Kelly Marble. She never really meant to kill her parents.” Rocco Cataldo’s short, Wednesday’s Child is a quirky yet dark examination into the child psyche, shrouded in...
Children Of HeavenBy Kevin Flynn Having been greatly impressed by recent works such as A Separation and About Elly, I was curious to learn what other hidden gems I could uncover from Iranian cinema....
Holy MotorsBy Ananda Dillon Holy Motors opens in a theater of unmoving bodies, an unseen film plays. A man wakes in a bed on a boat, uses the key he has in place...
KwaidanBy Himanish Ashar Don’t be fooled by the age, Kwaidan is one of the finest reasons to include Masaki Kobayashi in the contenders list for one of the greatest Japanese directors of...
Safety Not GuaranteedBy C.J. Prince Safety Not Guaranteed thankfully takes its science fiction framework and keeps it in the background, instead putting the focus on its characters and how they grow over the film’s...
