“Selma” will inspire you
A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery.
"Little Big Man": A movie you might have missed
The film put an end to the portrayal of the settling of the West as a bugle-blowing heroic exercise of taming the savage inhabitants.
"The Imitation Game": Binary consciousness at many levels
The enthralling story of an inspired, harassed and troubled genius, British mathematician Alan Turing and his conquest of the "unbreakable" Nazi "Enigma" code.
So many good reasons to see “Wild”
Nominations and awards are being discussed for "Wild," with good reason.
"The Wanted 18" is a charmingly subversive human comedy
This highly creative documentary film about Palestine succeeds on many levels.
Review: Smiling through the Apocalypse, Esquire in the 60s
Esquire editor Harold Hayes was arguably to magazines what famous literary editor Maxwell Perkins (editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe) was to novels.
"Calvary": Chaos and possible redemption
During a confessional, at the beginning of the movie and before the credits, a parishioner says that he will murder the priest the following Sunday; we follow the priest through the week.
In "Snowpiercer," classes struggle on a train
The master and inventor of the perpetual train lives in the engine, while subsequent cars are filled with succeeding levels of privileged people. Our heroes barely survive in the back.
"Sarajevo": Saga of 1914 joins ranks of great pacifist films
Like Oliver Stone in JFK, Sarajevo's director Andreas Prochaska and writer Martin Ambrosch have created a counter-narrative to the official version of why the archduke was shot.
"Eat With Me": You may be hungry an hour after this tasty coming-out tale
"Eat With Me" alternates between being an enjoyable, poignant coming-out comedy drama and a paint-or rather film-by numbers story.
