March 2013
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Review: ‘Wrong’ Is Absurd For the Sake of Being Absurd, and That’s Not Right
Note: Rob Hunter’s review originally ran during Fantastic Fest 2012, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in limited theatrical release. Weirdness has…
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Review: ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ Is a Fantastic View of Parallel Lives
by Andrew Robinson Note: Andrew Robinson’s review originally ran during TIFF 2012, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in limited theatrical release. Derek…
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Review: ‘Welcome to the Punch’ Lets James McAvoy’s Balls Drop
Review: ‘Welcome to the Punch’ Lets James McAvoy’s Balls Drop For a movie made for $8.5 million, Welcome to the Punch is strikingly polished. While that’s…
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Review: ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Doesn’t Give Us Much to Fight For
If you’ve come to Jon M. Chu’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation looking for plot, well, you’ve probably also forgotten what happened the last time we hooked…
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21 Things We Learned From Scream Factory’s ‘From Beyond’ Commentary
Stuart Gordon’s 1985 film, Re-Animator, remains one of the absolute best horror/comedies of the last three decades thanks to its spectacular mix of over the…
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8 Weirdest Ways Musical Performances (By Actual Musicians) Were Disrupted In Movies
by David Christopher Bell Musicians have a certain luxury when it comes to films in that they can apparently just show up in them whenever…
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9 Great Discoveries We Made at SXSW 2013
SXSW 2013 ended ten days ago, but the memories live on thanks to the great friends we met, delicious food we ate and fantastic movies…
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Review: ‘Blancanieves’ is a Moving Return to Silent-Era Storytelling
Blancanieves, Spanish director Pablo Berger’s second feature, will turn to American audiences at an unlikely intersection of tastes and trends. On the heels of The…
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Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Plot Channels the 1932 Best Picture Winner
It’s actually a little embarrassing that I didn’t make the connection between Wes Anderson’s upcoming Grand Budapest Hotel and the 1932 Best Picture Winner Grand…
