Film Review: Oscar-Nominated French Cartoon, The Illusionist, Weaves Melancholy Magic Magician Does A Long, Slow Disappearing Act In Melancholy Animated Fable [photo]There’s a major David and Goliath matchup in this year’s Oscar race. Wedged between multimillion-dollar, 3-D computer-animated films How to Train Your Dragon [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 10, 2011 Read More Mick Jagger: The earliest years
Film Review: Mike Leigh Brings The Camera In Close For Another Vivid Character Study In Another Year Mike Leigh Brings The Camera In Close For Another Vivid Character Study The criticism most often levied by casual viewers against non-Hollywood films—those of the indie, art house and foreign variety—is that they’re slow. There’s [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 03, 2011 Read More “Beer. It’s what’s for dinner.”
Film Review: Indie Comedy/Drama Tiny Furniture Looks At Post-College Life In Miniature Indie Comedy/Drama Looks At Post-College Life In Miniature If Lena Dunham’s new indie dramedy Tiny Furniture doesn’t represent the voice of a new generation of filmmakers, then it will do nicely [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 03, 2011 Read More Aura discusses her pipe dreams with Jerk No. 2.
Film Review: Javier Bardem In Biutiful Or Mizerabel —Depends On How You Look At It Uxbal is a poor, single father struggling to raise two young children in inner-city Barcelona. In an attempt to make ends meet, he [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 27, 2011 Read More It’s a bad day when dudes in berets are giving you the beatdown
Film Review: A Brazilian Artist Turns The World’s Largest Dump Into Fertile Creative Ground In Waste Land Moving Doc Covers Economy, Ecology And The Transformative Power Of Art Documentaries are, by their very nature, passive things. Their purpose is to document. On the whole, they are little more than moving portraits [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 20, 2011 Read More Nice
I Like To Watch (Instantly): 11 Harrowhouse Notable Titles From The Netflix Watch Instantly World Set the time machine for 1974 and make like a jewel thief in Aram Avakian’s 11 Harrowhouse. Charles Grodin plays Howard Chesser, a [...] Nick Brown \ Jan 13, 2011 Read More “This will stop anything.”“From what?”“Living.”
Film Review: Blue Valentine, Starring Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Is Gunning For An Oscar Love Hurts In This Story Of A Marriage Going South There is a rare but certain pleasure in watching actors—or anyone, for that matter—practicing their craft for the pure, primal joy of it. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 13, 2011 Read More Nothing says romance like a ukulele solo.
I Like To Watch (Instantly): She Or Maybe I Don’t [photo]Is this a recommendation or a warning? Only you can decide. The unlikable protagonists, Tom and Dick, are wandering around a post-apocalyptic bizarro [...] Marisa Demarco \ Jan 06, 2011 Read More Sandahl Bergman
Film Review: Claire Denis’ War-Torn African Drama White Material French Filmmaker Approaches African Civil War From A Pale Perspective Over the past 20 years, French filmmaker Claire Denis ( Chocolate, Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day, 35 Shots of Rum ) has created [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 06, 2011 Read More Isabelle Huppert takes the road less traveled.
Film Review: I Love You Phillip Morris Prison Romance Makes Carrey A Fool For Love Honestly, I’m a bit wary of Jim Carrey these days. I prefer to think of him as a perfectly cute dog I’ve known [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 23, 2010 Read More Hey