I think it boils down to a fundamental philisophical difference of opinion.
I just plain don't like the stories Nancy Meyers tells or the people she tells stories about, and I don't believe the behavior of...
Magnet Releasing recently announced that they'e going to be handling the U.S. release of 2009's Fantastic Fest award winner "Down Terrace," and this week in Park City, Alamo honcho and genial lunatic Tim&nbs...
Andrea Arnold's filmography so far is not a particularly long one, but it seems that even in the span of a short and a couple of features, it's a significant one. Cut from the same cloth as fellow English misera...
When I reviewed Christian Alvert's debut feature "Antibodies" back in 2005, I thought it was an impressive first film, and I hoped that it would lead to a strong feature career. Hollywood and inte...
You can't really make an argument for Philippe Mora as a great filmmaker, but I might be able to make the argument that he's not a terrible filmmaker. If I was only judging films like his "Howling"&nbs...
My first film this year was, for obvious reasons, "2010: The Year We Make Contact," and when I was looking through the stack of "next things to watch" on my desk, I realized that I had the lat...
No, I have not abandoned my plan to write up everything I see this year. I'm just off to a slow start for the year. I saw two films yesterday that I can't write up because of embargo, "Creation"&...
I grew up in a John Wayne household.
For one thing, I share a birthday with The Duke, something I think pleased my dad enormously when I was growing up. He was the western fan in general, and a W...
As we finished this movie last night, my wife turned to me and flung her red-and-blue 3D glasses at me, visibly irritated.
"I want my time back!"
This from someone who has genuinely loved all the othe...
As I'm gearing up for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in a few weeks, I'm catching up on a few films I've missed at festivals over the last year, and one of those that I missed at both Sundance and SXSW was Spike...
