Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead fails to live up to expectations; on the other hand, The Raid 2: Berandal knocks it out of the park.
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Movie Review: ‘American Hustle’
Director David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter) has crafted one of the most fiercely entertaining films of the year.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Harder They Come’
Not only an interesting and well told story, it's just as relevant todays as it was 40 years ago.
Read More »Sundance 2014 Movie Review: ‘Hellion’
Writer/director Kat Chandler expands Hellion from her 2012 Sundance short into a tear jerker of a film — even if she uses way too much shaky cam.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Shadow People’
Shadow People doesn’t even consider thinking outside the box.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Jewish Cardinal’
The filmmakers relay the account of Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris, with grace, reinforcing Lustiger's vision of reconciliation between the faiths in harmony and ecumenism.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich’ -23rd New York Jewish Film Festival
The film enlightens us about this controversial and brilliant individual of the mid-20th Century.
Read More »Sundance 2014 Movie Reviews: ‘God Help the Girl’ and ‘Hits’
If there’s one thing I’m sure of as of this writing, it’s that I have only had to suffer through two horrible films at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Read More »Sundance 2014 Movie Reviews: ‘The Skeleton Twins,’ ‘Obvious Child,’ and ‘Happy Christmas’
What would Sundance be without low budget comedies?
Read More »Sundance 2014 Movie Review: ‘Jamie Marks Is Dead’
If there’s one thing Guillermo del Toro’s Devil’s Backbone didn’t have, or need, was a bisexual love triangle between the living and the dead.
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