Author: Neil Miller

Atmospheric. That’s probably the best way to describe director David Michod’s Australian gangster flick Animal Kingdom. In telling the story of Joshua ‘J’ Cody (newcomer…

Unlike last year, the 2010 edition of the Sundance Film Festival has seen a slow resurgence in pick-ups. If I remember correctly, 2009 was a…

Any movie that begins with several minutes of a hungover person throwing up will grab your attention. It will especially grab your attention if it…

The moment after The Kids Are All Right bursts open with a feverish soundtrack, it is easy to see that this movie has great energy.…

There’s nothing more predictable going into Sundance than the fact that there will be some heavy drama. Someone is bound to have family problems, someone…

If there’s one thing that has come of the rise of the likes of the Duplass Brothers and the mumblecore (or something like it) movement,…

Reviewing a concert film, and more specifically a comedy show film isn’t easy. In fact, it is tough to provide much insight beyond “it’s funny”…

Someone asked me once, “When will the world grow tired of Jesse Eisenberg?” I replied (this being right after the release of Zombieland) that Eisenberg…

I can hear the conversation in the pitch meeting now. “This is Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s film. But he isn’t going to be the charming, clean-cut, charismatic…