Making Mary
Saving Mr. Banks is a lie. I don’t mean in the film-school sense that all movies (even documentaries) are fictions constructed by an author....
Hustle and Russell
Some caper films are sleek humming machines, but American Hustle is by David O. Russell, which means that it lurches and veers and speeds...
Carte Blanchett
Cate Blanchett is generally regarded as one of the great actresses of our time, and yet her actual track record is curiously spotty. She...
Let’s Stryng Along
They make an interesting study in contrasts, the short-haired, clean shaven, jocular Geoff McGee and the long-haired, bearded, studious Derek Presley. Still, these Dallas...
Ice Castle
Last August we had The Snow Queen, a Russian film based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fable. Frozen is based on the same story, but...
Red Dead Redemption
AMC Grapevine Mills has been running Korean films on a semi-regular basis for a while now, but Commitment, which starts there on Friday, is...
Bright Black Screens
Black filmmakers have grabbed center stage this year, and the heartening thing is, they’ve mostly been new blood. Steve McQueen reached a broad American...
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Ken Scott’s French-language comedy Starbuck shattered box office records in its native Canada last year, so it seemed inevitable that an English-language remake from...
Tournament of Champions
Sometimes the fans have it exactly right. They turned out for the movie version of The Hunger Games last year, and while they generally...
Party Like It’s 1999
Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy The Best Man was only a modest hit when it came out in 1999, but it was the best-known of...
