One of the best comic book movies yet.
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DVD Review: Eugene Onegin (Live in HD)
This new staging of the “timeless tale” of "Eugene Onegin" is younger, “sexier,” flashier than its predecessor. It works – and it doesn’t.
Read More »Gordon Willis: Master Cinematographer
Gordon Wills worked with some of the top directors of the past five decades, creating visual styles for their films that propelled them to iconic status.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia’
In 'Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia,' Nicholas Wrathall creates an entertaining, well thought out and succinctly edited documentary. Wrathall cobbles together snippets from video archives, and interview clips and masterfully reveals what made Vidal who he is and how he engendered the vital purpose of his writing and sardonic, pithy commentary: to awaken us from our amnesia.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Million Dollar Arm’
Million Dollar Arm: a swing and a miss.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival: Short Film Program – ‘App’
'App' was one of five films in the short program entitled Handle With Care at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Godzilla’ (2014)
Godzilla is still “King of the Monsters”
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Virunga’
'Virunga' in its World Premiere is the most powerful, beautiful and stirring of the documentaries to come out of Tribeca Film Festival.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Neighbors’ (2014)
Makes 'Old School' look old school.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Silenced’
Silenced directed by James Spione is a documentary about three brave whistleblowers Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake and John Kiriakou who exposed governmental wrongdoing and paid a heavy price for bringing the truth to the light of day.
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