With the recent spate of comic book-based movies, we’re in a golden age. It is no longer just okay to throw characters onto the screen with poor dialogue and ludicrous scenarios. The bar has been raised every summer. And the bar is now sky high. Now comic book movies must face the dizzying heights achieved …
Michael Haneke is kind of a riddle in his 2008 shot-for-shot remake of his own 1997 horror film, ‘Funny Games.’ His film is a criticism on violence in film; it plays out more like a deconstructive essay than it does an actual film, goading the audience on, mocking them for the violence he feels the …
While I don’t consider myself a sci-fi enthusiast (and definitely don’t fall into the charming category of “geek”), I can say that when a sci-fi movie is good, I mean really, really good, I’m all over it.
With the nationwide release of ‘The Dark Knight’ just days away, Warner Bros. released a direct-to-DVD anime film comprised of six anime shorts, each around 12 minutes in length entitled, ‘Batman: Gotham Knight.’ The animated feature was to provide another perspective on the world of Batman that Christopher Nolan created as well as fill in …
Converting J.K. Rowling’s novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, into a film was clearly going to be a challenge.
How do you define a documentary? Is it a film that has interviews? Is it a film that tells a true story? These are the sorts of questions that you find yourself thinking watching Hiroshi Teshigahara’s movie ‘Antonio Gaudi.’
No one can accuse Werner Herzog of not being a risky director. While his directorial style doesn’t contain a lot of flash, it is definitely stylized in its ability to capture riveting stories. And no one can accuse Christian Bale of being a personality actor.
In 1953, writer Elmore Leonard published a short story in Dime Western Magazine. The story was made into a movie in 1957, starring Glenn Ford. In 2007, ‘Walk the Line’ director James Mangold tackled the story again.
Halfway through the large slate of movies released annually
Three brothers, Peter, Jack and Francis all meet in India and re-connect in a spiritual and emotional journey through the countryside. That is the one-sentence plot of Wes Anderson’s most recent film, ‘The Darjeeling Limited.’ What sounds simple on paper turns into an on-screen character study featuring three of this era’s most interesting and watchable …