Film Review: Canadian Classroom Drama Monsieur Lazhar Teaches A Lesson On Healing French-Canadian Classroom Drama Teaches A Lesson On Healing Inspirational teacher stories have long been a staple of the movie industry—from 1939’s Goodbye, Mr. Chips to 1967’s To Sir, With Love to [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 23, 2012 Read More Proof positive that teachers do not have eyes in the back of their heads.
Film Review: Beyond The Black Rainbow Is One Mind-Bending, ’80S-Style Head Trip Psychotropic Sci-Fi Film Drops Countless References To Cult Films Past How are you at cult film trivia? Canadian director Panos Cosmatos digs three decades deep into the back shelves of the video store [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 16, 2012 Read More
Film Review: Can Us Monkey-Brained Humans Live Through Our Own Success In Surviving Progress? Scientific Progress Goes Boink In Scary-Smart Documentary Surviving Progress is a heavy-duty think piece of a documentary based on Ronald Wright’s best seller A Short History of Progress . Co-directed [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 02, 2012 Read More It looks impressive
Film Review: Batman Trilogy Delivers Its Monumental Coda With The Dark Knight Rises Batman Trilogy Ends On A Very Big Bang [photo]There are so many ways to begin this, it’s not even funny. I’ll start, then, by saying this is a movie review. Nothing [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 26, 2012 Read More
Film Review: 6-Year-Old Actress Wows In Postapocalypic Indie Beasts Of The Southern Wild Swampy Survival Tale Serves Up A Gumbo Of The Real And The Fantastical Riding high on a wave of film fest bonhomie (it snagged the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and four awards at this years’ [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 19, 2012 Read More
Film Review: Lebanese Dramedy Where Do We Go Now? Finds Humor In Tragedy Middle Eastern Farce Finds Inventive, If Unrealistic, Solution To Religious Strife Somewhere, in the rocky wilds of Lebanon, lies a tiny village so isolated from neighboring communities that the residents can barely keep up [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 12, 2012 Read More
Film Review: Woody Allen Goes To Rome With Love, But You’ll Wish You Stayed Home Woody Allen’s Having A Wonderful Time In Italy, But You’ll Wish You Weren’t There Prior to 2005, when he was a strictly New York kind of guy, Woody Allen’s batting average was quite high. From 1969’s Take [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 05, 2012 Read More Ignore the creepy old man and continue making out
Film Review: Musical Terrorists Run Wild In Sweden With Sound Of Noise Swedish Cop Walks The Beat (Literally) In Singular Musical Crime Comedy Pity poor Amadeus Warnebring, born tone-deaf into a family of musical geniuses. His mother is a famous concert pianist, his father is a [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 28, 2012 Read More
Film Review: Disney And Pixar Crown A Princess For The 21St Century With Animated Brave Disney And Pixar Crown A Medieval Princess For The 21 St Century In its surprisingly short existence ( Toy Story came out in 1995), Pixar Animation Studios has rewritten the book on animation in general [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 21, 2012 Read More Red hair and archery? She’s Black Widow and Hawkeye all rolled into one.
Film Review: The Advent Of The Vibrator Gets The Comic Treatment In Hysteria The Advent Of The Vibrator Gets The Comic Treatment, But Filmmakers Fail To Touch A Nerve Imagine, if you will, a smirkingly lightweight comedy about the creation of the world’s first electric vibrator. Well, imagine no more, because the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 14, 2012 Read More “Little to the left