Review Reviews

A Royal Affair

Love, politics and religion set the stage for Nikolaj Arcel's A Royal Affair, Denmark's official entry into this year's Foreign Language Film race at the Academy Awards. Telling the true story of Queen Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander) who, while married to King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard), had an affair with the king's physician...

Looper

By Dustin Jansick

I am always skeptic when it comes to most sci-fi action films but Looper is the rare exception that proves from time to time excellent ones are made. Rian...

A Bittersweet Life

By Himanish Ashar

As I tracked back to the opening chapter of A Bittersweet Life, I paid attention to the wisdom that softened the silence in those few words. The film unfortunately...

Starlet

By Dustin Jansick

Twice nominated Independent Spirit Award director Sean Baker, in his fourth feature film, shows us the development of an unlikely friendship between two people with nothing in common and...

Sister

By Mitchell Beaupre

The Swiss entry into this year's Foreign Language Film race at the Academy Awards, Sister could work almost as a companion piece to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's masterful The...

How to Survive a Plague
By C.J. Prince
Léa Pool’s documentary Pink Ribbons Inc. points out early on that the breast cancer awareness movement originally had an activist background. One of the documentary’s talking heads points out...

Chernobyl Diaries
By Blake Ginithan
Chernobyl Diaries comes close to succeeding, but in the end it fails to deliver on a promising build up. When I saw the preview months ago I laughed off...

Ruby Sparks
By 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 Dad
By 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...

deadmau5 – >album title goes here<
By Megan Jung
The now widely known Canadian electronic powerhouse, known to the general public as deadmau5, has released his sixth record entitled >album title goes here<. The album is a wildly...

Memories of Murder
By 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 237
By 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 Joe
By 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 2
By 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 Encounters
By 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...

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