Transatlantic CoffeeBy Amy Priest From the first few seconds into the opening sequence of Transatlantic Coffee, I was hooked. The beautiful shots, the soulful melody of Alix Paige and expert use of lighting...
Coronado – Self-titledBy Whitni Ciofalo I am increasingly skeptical of up-and-coming bands professing their command of that classic bluesy rock ‘n’ roll sound. I have sat through too many cover band bar performance ending...
Silver Linings PlaybookBy C.J. Prince David O. Russell continues his transformation into a mainstream prestige director with Silver Linings Playbook, an enjoyable crowd-pleaser that puts 2012’s other romantic comedies to shame. Russell’s transition from...
Laurence AnywaysBy Dustin Jansick Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan is back with his third film Laurence Anyways, which attempts to show that gender is not everything when it comes to a relationship. The film...
Little Miss SunshineBy Amy Priest For a film based upon a dysfunctional family’s struggle across America to enter their daughter into a beauty pageant – Little Miss Sunshine should go down in history as...
ArbitrageBy Dustin Jansick Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage is a riveting thriller that works without being wholly original, insetad it relies on a solid script backed by a fantastic lead performance by Richard Gere.
Doomsday BookBy Dustin Jansick Doomsday Book is a Korean anthology film from directors Kim Ji-woon and Yim Pil-sung. It was originally supposed to have three directors as it has three chapters but the...
The ComedyBy C.J. Prince Fans of awkward comedy will get a lot more than they bargained for with Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, a hilarious and tragic character study that brutally tears apart the...
Rust and BoneBy Mitchell Beaupre In what will more than likely go down as the biggest disappointment of the year in film for me, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone isn’t something that I would...
ArgoBy Blake Ginithan Ben Affleck’s Argo is a helluva thriller. One of the best Hollywood has released this year. I’ve personally disliked his other directing efforts, not because they were bad, I...
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The HeistBy Whitni Ciofalo Sometimes being able to eat your own words in a nice feeling. It a recent feature piece about the merger between Universal Music Group and EMI, I noted that...
Wish You Were HereBy Dustin Jansick Kieran Darcy-Smith makes his feature film debut with his Australian indie drama Wish You Were Here, which first premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film’s non-linear narrative...
Save the DateBy Dustin Jansick Save the Date is a romantic comedy which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by IFC Films that features a solid upcoming cast of Lizzy Caplan,...
The BayBy C.J. Prince The found footage subgenre of horror films, now appearing to be completely exhausted, has some new life injected into it thanks to Barry Levinson. The Bay is Levinson’s first...
