Last year, both Tom and I had a chance to screen Shuichi Okita’s warm Japanese dramedy The Woodsman & the Rain, a film we both really enjoyed and appreciated, so when I saw that he had a... Read more
Let’s face it: people are still facing dire straits financially. Even recent graduates are having issues finding solid work and unable to sustain themselves in today’s world. The... Read more
Blood Ties begins with a title card that says “Brooklyn, New York 1974” and is immediately followed with a character putting on a record of Ace Frehley’s version of “... Read more
In Bad Words, Guy Trilby is a contestant in the Golden Quill National Spelling Bee competition, but there is only one issue: he is forty years old. Guy (Jason Bateman) exploits a rule that s... Read more
Directed by Song Hae-Sung, the South Korean film Boomerang Family follows a dysfunctional family forced to live in close quarters once again, this time as adults. In the beginning of the fi... Read more
Nominated for best foreign film this year, Felix Van Groeningen’s romantic drama The Broken Circle Breakdown is, as the poster describes “a cross between Walk the Line and Blue Valentine” an... Read more
I sat down to watch the Oscar nominated film Omar, written and directed by Hany Abu-Assad, knowing only three things about it: that it was foreign, that it was an Oscar nominee, and that it... Read more
There seems to be a bit of casting news circulating for quite a few projects and we now have heard that Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz are now set to star in Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos ... Read more
Imagine watching your own funeral, standing there, watching everyone as they struggle for anything to say. How would it feel to know everyone thought so highly of you that not one of them co... Read more
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