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Trailer: Like Father, Like Son
I’ll refer you to Dustin’s Cannes review of Like Father, Like Son where he sat amongst a ‘teary eyed’ audience and witnessed this huge festival success from 2013, and now in 2014 it’s allowed its big screen moment. I...
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Generation War
As a four-hour German epic depicting the lives of five friends before, during and after the Second World War, Generation War must be appreciated as an ambitious enterprise. Compared by critics to Band of Brothers, the film covers a tremendous amount...
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2014 Golden Globe Award Winners
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler continued hosting duties for the second consecutive year for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe awards. Over the course of the award ceremony there were many big winners which include: American Hustle which...
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Giveaway: Blue Jasmine Blu-ray
Any film directed by Woody Allen gets us pretty excited, especially after recently proving he still has it with his wonderful 2011 film Midnight in Paris. Cate Blanchett has already received a number of nominations (Spirit Award, Golden Globes)...
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Ms. 45
It takes 10 minutes for Ms. 45`s title character to get raped twice within the same day. In other words, director Abel Ferrara doesn`t waste time establishing his protagonist`s horrible situation. Thana (Zoë Tamerlis Lund) is a mute seamstress...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: Drinking Buddies, The Apartment, American Psycho, & More
With the slew of movies Netflix cut at the close of 2013 (Brick, Requiem For a Dream, Being John Malkovich especially hurt to see go, though there were many others), and an influx of equally awesome films rushing in to fill in...
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Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer Rally at ‘The Square’
Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim’s rousing documentary The Square was born of a revolution. In January 2011, Noujaim traveled to Cairo when she heard rumblings of an uprising forming at Tahrir Square in opposition of longtime President Hosni Mubarak and his...
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Charlie Chaplin’s “Tramp” Celebrates Centennial in SF
This Saturday, January 11th at San Francisco’s Castro Theater, there’s going to be an all-day, 100-Year Anniversary celebration of one of the most essential, irreplaceable, and beloved characters in the history of film, Charlie Chaplin’s “The Tramp”. The bumbling, infectiously...
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Her
In the near future of Her, LA has a few new buildings in its skyline and is as smoggy as ever. The haze only adding to its dreaminess. The metro extends all the way to the beach (something all...
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The Invisible Woman
The Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes sophomore directorial effort (following up 2011’s Coriolanus), tells the true story of the love affair Charles Dickens (played by Fiennes) had with a much younger woman, actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), with a touch so...
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Muscle Shoals
Since its birth, rock music has thrived on rumour and myth. For example, you don’t have to search too long before finding urban legends about various musicians who supposedly sold their soul to Satan in return for musical bounty....
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Liv & Ingmar
For those familiar with the films of Ingmar Bergman, Liv & Ingmar‘s greatest gift is that it adds a new layer of richness to the Swedish auteur’s legendary oeuvre. The documentary examines the extraordinary 42-year-long relationship with he and his...
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August: Osage County
Broad and brutal, August: Osage County doesn’t offer much in the way of subtlety, but there’s something satisfying about indulging in the bigness of it all. The all-star cast, headed up by a bitch-mode Meryl Streep and a seething Julia Roberts,...
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American Hustle
For American Hustle, David O. Russell assembles a cast largely comprised from his previous two crowd pleasing films, Christian Bale and Amy Adams from 2010’s The Fighter, and Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence from 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook. His...
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