Perhaps, 'Birdman' is not a masterpiece in a literal sense, but a technical masterpiece for sure.
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DVD Review: ‘The Innocents’
Perfect for the Halloween season, The Criterion Collection has released a gorgeous DVD version of the classic ghost film, "The Innocents."
Read More »Movie Review: ‘John Wick’
Leitch and Stahelski have a great career ahead of them as a directing-producing team.
Read More »DVD Review: Monty Python—’Live (Mostly)—One Down Five to Go’
'Live (Mostly)—One Down Five to Go' is perhaps the penultimate Monty Python experience.
Read More »22nd Hamptons International Film Festival: ‘E-TEAM,’ an Award Winning Documentary
When there are rumors of severe human rights violations, Human Rights Watch calls upon its select emergency unit, the E-Team who is expedited to the sites on the ground at great risk. There, they investigate the abuses gaining eye-witness testimony and collecting facts, data and hard evidence. Their reports are sent to global media and world leaders are brought closer to decisions to intervene or bring international sanctions to bear. This is an amazing film about their work and their lives that you will not soon forget.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘St. Vincent’
Continues to prove Murray is one of our most treasured comedians with no signs of slowing down.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘CITIZENFOUR’
Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall when history was made? CITIZENFOUR gives you that opportunity.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me’ – An Award Winning Documentary
If you are a celebrity, should you go public that you have Alzheimer's or quietly retire from the spotlight and cope with the coming darkness and silence? Glen Campbell in keeping with his maverick and legendary career took on another momentous career bending move. He was the first celebrity to publicly reveal the Alzheimer's diagnosis. What he and his family decided to do next is nothing short of extraordinary. Their decision and their actions in the subsequent months to maintain their joy and richness of life is captured in James Keach's amazing and award winning documentary of Glen Campbell's. You will walk away uplifted from this authentic portrait of a family bonded together through a time of crisis. As for Glenn Campbell, the truism may remain that that one's waning years may actually hold more power and wonder than one's youth.
Read More »Charles Feldman’s ‘Casino Royale’ (1967) Comes Of Age, Five Decades Later
But Casino Royale is also a hint -- no matter how minor, or how bare -- of some possibilities within the medium. It’s just that, after trying to do it all, on the one hand, it forgot what needed to get done in the first place.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Fury’
The movie pulls no punches and definitely hits the audience with realistic and often graphic war violence, but it's the effect of this violence on the characters that gives this film its amazing emotional drive.
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