They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for April, 2013
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
At a time when most screenplays are running on empty, Derek Cianfrance’s “The Place Beyond the Pines” is a breath of fresh air, a three-act play about the strange course of destiny that connects a small group of people and how their actions affect the lives and decisions of others who cross their path. The […]
Oblivion (2013)
“Oblivion” takes place in one of those crummy futuristic landscapes where everything is a desolate wasteland, humanity is nearly gone and what functioning technology still exists is trying to kill us. This may not be too farfetched unless you stop to wonder why the only remains of the once thriving civilization are easily recognizable famous […]
To the Wonder (2013)
If you know Terrence Malick’s work, then you pretty much know what you’re walking into when you attend his movies. His films don’t look, walk, talk or even sing like anyone else’s. He is a cinema artist whose work is quiet, poetic and breaks away from the standard narrative, cutting down just enough plot and […]
Thale (2013)
It is safe to assume that Elvis and Leo do a job that few people could stomach. They clean up crime scenes. After the bodies have been removed, they clean up the pools of blood and bits of human remains that litter the scene. It’s not a pleasant job but somebody’s got to do it. […]
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
They say that in show business timing is everything. That said, it might be reasonable to question whether or not a movie about an attack on the White House by a North Korean terrorist sect is a good idea given the world situation. With the North Koreans currently rattling their sabers, and prepping for war, […]
Evil Dead (2013)
It takes a lot of nerve to advertise a horror movie as “The Most Terrifying Film You Will Ever See.” In this cynical, movie-drenched culture, when we often complain that there is nothing new under the sun, a line like that makes us walk into the theater thinking: “Okay . . . well . . […]
Roger Ebert (1942-2013). He was my hero.
He was my hero. It may be only once in your life that you come across someone who has a positive impact on you that shapes the trajectory of your life’s ambition. For me, that person was Roger Ebert, a journalist and film critic for 46 years, a television institution and a man whose deep […]
Spring Breakers (2013)
If it were a better movie, Spring Breakers might have been the perfect opportunity to break down the luster and bluster of spring break in Florida, an annual tradition that (according to this movie) resembles the last days of Caligula, with copious amounts of booze, drugs, sex and anything else that Mom and Dad (or […]
