Film Review: Blue Ruin Indie Revenge Drama Delivers Cold Comfort When we first meet our man Dwight, he’s living in a car, scavenging food out of dumpsters and breaking into people’s houses to [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 01, 2014 Read More
Film Review: Jodorowsky’s Dune Surrealist Filmmaker’s Long-Lost Masterpiece Comes To Life In Imaginative, Inspirational Documentary “Every masterpiece has a touch of madness in it,” says one of the talking heads in Jodorowsky’s Dune by way of introduction. “Maybe [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 24, 2014 Read More
Film Review: Under The Skin Experimental Sci-Fi Film Wonders What It’s Like To Be Human ... And Then Harvest The Internal Organs Of Other Humans For Mysterious Alien Purposes No matter what your ultimate opinion of it ends up being, British director Jonathan Glazer’s heavily atmospheric, highly experimental film Under the Skin [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 17, 2014 Read More
Film Review: British Couple Celebrates Bittersweet Anniversary In Le Week-End Love And Marriage Go Through The Ringer During A Bittersweet Anniversary Trip To Paris [photo]The amount of relaxation and pleasure one derives from a vacation is inversely proportional to the amount of fatigue and discomfort one must [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 10, 2014 Read More
Film Review: Wes Anderson’s Screwball Caper The Grand Budapest Hotel Finds The Art In Artifice Wes Anderson’s Screwball Caper Finds The Art In Artifice As a filmmaker, Wes Anderson has his detractors. I’m not one of them, but I know why they exist. His obsessively art-directed films, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 03, 2014 Read More
Film Review: Knowledge Is Lars Von Trier’s Fetish In Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 Lars Von Trier’s Fetish Is The Specialization Of Knowledge [photo] Whether you root for polymaths or specialists, Dutch auteur Lars von Trier's thematically connected “Depression Trilogy” tests audiences' beliefs about the ownership [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Mar 27, 2014 Read More
Film Review: The Muppets Are Back With Another Big-Time Caper In Muppets Most Wanted The Muppets Are Back And They Never “Felt” So Good There is, at this point in history, ample evidence that God is in his Heaven and all is right with the world ... [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 20, 2014 Read More
Film Review: Aaron Paul Is “Braking Bad” In Silly, Video Game-Inspired Need For Speed Aaron Paul Is In The Driver’s Seat For Zippy Car Chase Film That Ends Up “Braking Bad” Hollywood is desperate for ideas and willing to look anywhere—other than, you know, to actual screenwriters. So, in the fine tradition of Super [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 13, 2014 Read More
Film Review: Chilean Drama Gloria Admits Love Isn’t Always Better The Second Time Around Honest Chilean Drama Admits Love Isn’t Any Easier The Second Time Around Gloria, the eponymous lady at the center of Sebastián Lelio’s award-winning Chilean drama, is a divorcée of “a certain age”—that age being somewhere [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 06, 2014 Read More
Film Review: 19Th Century French Get Sexy, Scandalous With Pitch Black Romance In Secret Americans (With English Accents, Pretending To Be French) Contemplate Sex And Death In Gloomy Love Story Who doesn’t love a good, “scandalous” love story. Unfortunately we’ve become so acclimated (some might say, addicted) to scandal these days, old-fashioned scandals [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 20, 2014 Read More