FILM: The Broken Tower

It might be best to forget everything that you know about James Franco before viewing his new film The Broken Tower because if it were any other first time director’s work it would be seen as an intriguing art house film with beautiful imagery despite it’s freshman feel at times but being that Franco has a polarizing tabloid figure it’s More...

FILM: Darling Companion
A brilliant ensemble of actors are featured in Lawrence Kasdan’s new film Darling Companion including Oscar winners Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, and Kevin Kline as well as terrific newcomers like Elisabeth More...

FILM: The Lady starring Michelle Yeoh and directed by Luc Besson
Even though the plight of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi has been well documented in the news as well as in the arts over the years, especially since her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, her story is still not common knowledge More...

FILM: The Assault directed by Julien Leclercq
When the unthinkable actually happens, who do you call? France’s answer to this question is the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, or the GIGN, a badass, special op unit of the French Armed Forces that deals More...

FILM: Goon starring Seann William Scott and directed by Michael Dowse
In the pantheon of sports films, most of the narratives have focused on triumphant, heroic athletes who possess tremendous skill but in director Michael Dowse’s new film Goon, the focus instead is centered on More...

FILM: Sound of Noise
Presented with the 2010 Young Critics Award at Cannes Film Festival, Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson bring us the quirky Swedish musical heist film, Sound of Noise. Inspired by a new manifesto, “Music More...

FILM: Seeking Justice starring Nicolas Cage
What does Nicolas Cage do when he isn’t busy turning into a skull-headed ball of flame and tearing up town on his blazing motorcycle? Apparently, he’s busy evading a web of vigilantes who want to see him dead. More...

FILM: George Harrison: Living In the Material World
I caught the brand-spanking new Scorsese documentar, George Harrison: Living In The Material World at a press screening at our own New York Film Festival. Here we have another in a long line of loving tributes More...