When I first sat down to watch Lenny Abrahamson’s dramedy Frank, the only thing I knew about it was that Michael Fassbender was a musician that would be wearing a giant head the entire film... 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
Steve McQueen‘s Shame was one of my favorite movies of 2012 and was the film that put him on my radar. Though I haven’t seen his prior film Hunger, I’ve been eagerly await... Read more
Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land introduces Steve Butler (Matt Damon), corporate everyman for a powerful natural gas conglomerate, whose latest job in small-town Western Pennsylvania is the last... Read more
One of my favorite films of 2007 was the brilliantly-titled The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which stars Brad Pitt and was written and directed by Andrew Dominik,... Read more
Ever since the success of his first directorial effort, Ben Affleck has been aggressively carving a new name for himself as one of the better directors working in Hollywood. With The Town b... Read more
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