drama
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Bastards
No matter what your opinion is on Claire Denis‘ films (full disclosure: I’m not the biggest fan of...
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Dallas Buyers Club
Real-life figure Ron Woodruff was a self-proclaimed legend of the rodeo; a shit-kicking, wild-woman-wrangling, tough sumbitch who’d put...
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The Motel Life
In The Motel Life, an adaptation of the Willy Vlautin novel, an intense brotherly love is the only...
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And While We Were Here
Kat Coiro’s tender romantic drama And While We Were Here takes us into the romantic, yet foreign, background...
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
Was I a little upset that I did not catch Blue Is the Warmest Color while at the...
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Diana
Somehow, some way, director Oliver Hirschbiegel has managed to make one of the most enchanting, magnetic, ravishing people...
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Kill Your Darlings
Based on true events that took place in and around Colombia University in 1944, director John Krokidas‘ impressive...
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All Is Lost
All is Lost reveals the true essence of who Robert Redford is as an actor as much as any...
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Zaytoun
Director Eran Riklis awkwardly sets a breezy odd-couple road trip movie under the dark cloud of the Israeli-Arab...
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12 Years a Slave Q&A (Mill Valley Film Festival)
At the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival last week, one of the biggest highlights in the festival’s stunning...
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The Way Way Back
From the Oscar winning minds behind the story of The Descendants, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash bring a...
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12 Years a Slave
With the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement’s march on Washington having just passed, and with the...
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We Are What We Are
Jim Mickle loosely remakes Jorge Michel Grau’s 2010 horror flick, Somos lo Que Hay, with We Are What...
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Concussion
A moody, sexy drama with bursts of black comedy sprinkled throughout, Concussion takes familiar themes–infidelity, complacency, mid-life anxiety–and...
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Interview: Stacie Passon of Concussion
In Concussion, first-time writer-director Stacie Passon gives us a glimpse into the doldrums of lesbian suburbia and how...