As one of my most anticipated films of the 2014 award season, Whiplash, from writer and director Damien Chazelle, did not disappoint. This jazz-infused drama bursts its way through an... Read more
This year’s best actress race seems like one that’s pretty weak in comparison to the intense one for best actor. There have been a lot of great female performances this year that haven’t bee... Read more
Biopics are a dime a dozen these days and, more often than not, they don’t do the subject justice. Chadwick Boseman has had the pleasure (or misfortune) of playing two extremely iconic figur... Read more
Last year saw the incredibly delayed release of director and writer duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s awesome horror thriller You’re Next. Thankfully, we didn’t have to wait two years for... Read more
South Korea loves its genre crime flicks and I love them for their devotion to it. Many of their mediocre wide release flicks top ours simply because they aren’t afraid to get their hands bl... Read more
It seems like Hollywood delivers us at least one big-name gangster film a year. With A Most Violent Year, writer/director J.C. Chandor has made one of the most un-gangster gangster films in... Read more
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev’s, Russia’s critically acclaimed entry into the foreign film Oscar race, titled Leviathan, focuses on Nikolai Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), an auto-repair shop... Read more
I’m sure I sound like a broken record when I say this but I’m not a big fan of musicals. There are very few that I truly like and they usually have to be very raunchy and comedic, though the... Read more
Some actors have the natural ability to transition from actor to director…and some don’t. The vision one director has for a specific script can be vastly different than that of another. In m... Read more
Big Eyes is based on the true story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), an artist who became known in the 1960s for dozens of paintings of big-eyed waifs, which practically created the pop art re... Read more
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