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
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
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
In 1974, James Caan starred in a film called The Gambler. While I never saw the film, people seemed to like it and it garnered Cann a Golden Globe nomination. Fast forward 40 years and Param... Read more
2014 has been a fascinating year for Jake Gyllenhaal. His first movie of 2014 was a head trip of a film called Enemy that got to me so much that I couldn’t figure out how to write a review f... Read more
The NYFF officially kicked off this year’s fest with the premiere of David Fincher’s Gone Girl, but as soon as that ended everyone’s excitement rapidly turned to the secret screening. In the... Read more
One of the few films I got to see at this year’s NYFF was Bennett Miller’s (Moneyball, Capote) Foxcatcher, a biographical sports drama that’s incredibly eerie and wonderfully gripping. The... Read more
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