Author: Allison Loring

How Warren Ellis and Nick Cave’s Music Haunted ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’ The idea of robbing banks and trains should…

The stage can be a magical and cathartic place where artists express themselves and connect with an audience, but sometimes it’s difficult to leave your…

Editor’s note: Our review of what was then called The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman originally ran during this year’s Sundance film festival, but we’re…

There are many factors that grab a person’s interest in seeing a film – the actors, the director, the material that inspired the film, the…

At the start of Justin Chadwick’s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela (Idris Elba) says his father named him to mean “troublemaker,” a stigma…

What does it mean to follow orders over instinct? On the outskirts of Las Vegas, Drones finds former fighter pilot Sue Lawson (Eloise Mumford) assigned…

When it comes to creating a score for a specific film, the music normally needs to stay within a specific genre to reflect the film’s…

The Counselor (Michael Fassbender) is a man in love, but he is also a man who may have gotten himself in over his head when…

Editor’s note: Our review of Kill Your Darlings originally ran during this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but we’re re-posting it as the film opens today…