They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for September, 2013
V/H/S/2 (2013)
The very concept behind both V/H/S movies is admittedly clever. What would happen if someone found an errant old video cassette tape and put it on. In the real world, it would probably be blank or at least packed with either bad porn or old episodes of “Oprah’ and ‘Diff’rent Strokes.’ But this is a […]
The Family (2013)
French director Luc Besson is best at creating portraits of the criminal underground. You can see this in his best work like “La Femme Nikita” and “The Professional.” You can even see a bit of this in “The Fifth Element.” He knows how to take us into the scummy underworld and introduce us to characters […]
Stories We Tell (2012)
Even the loneliest man who ever lived had a mother and a father. No matter how superfluous he may have been in later life, he was born somewhere and meant something to someone. That’s the great truth of humanity. We all come from the same space; we all come from the same reproductive process. We […]
The World’s End (2013)
The summer of 2013, more than any other, has been inundated with movies by filmmakers bent on destroying the world. Either the planet faces obliteration or the future is portrayed as a crummy place where half of humanity is dead and all functioning technology is trying to kill us. Most of these films have come […]
