Opening in wide release in just over a week, director extraordinaire Alejandro Inarritu’s new film The Revenant is a film for the ages. His follow-up film to the Academy Award winning Birdma... Read more
According to the opening title card, The Rover takes place in Australia “Ten years after the collapse.” The exact nature and magnitude of this collapse is never made clear, but i... Read more
The movies released by WWE Studios over its eleven year history have mostly been action movies starring wrestlers, comedy movies starring wrestlers, and when the company has been ambitious,... Read more
Drive was my favorite film of 2011. The pairing of Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling was a match made in heaven and when the film was released I was thrilled with the results, so you ca... Read more
One of the last films I screened at the 2011 NYAFF was a great Korean film called Bedevilled. It was a favorite at film festivals across the world and also earned a few awards for its parti... Read more
I love a smart movie, one that keeps you on your toes and constantly guessing as to what is real and what isn’t. Being left in the dark with only glimmers of light here and there to guide t... Read more
It seems that every few months I hear about a western film emerging out of Asia and ever since I saw The Good, The Bad, The Weird I make damn sure I pay attention to them in case another ama... Read more
You don’t hear about too many Australian westerns in this part of the world but when you watch the trailer for Red Hill something about the idea excites you. Maybe it’s that the film comes o... Read more
Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan geumjassi), the third installment in the Park Chan Wook Vengeance Trilogy, is a much different take on the concept of revenge. Just when I thought all hope was l... Read more
They say there is a first time for everything, well my reaction after Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot – 2002) was definitely a first for me. Last night... Read more
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