Reviews

I’m not exactly the sports type. Perhaps that’s why I spend so much time watching movies and writing about them on the Internet. I was…

As I’ve mentioned time and time again (and time again, mind you) in reviews of documentaries, there’s a certain “lightning in a bottle” element to…

One can see why the people of Sundance loved Winter’s Bone enough to give it the Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.…

There’s a certain amount of restraint that must be used when making a “quirky” comedy. You must be offbeat, but you can’t be too weird,…

In order to make an excellent documentary, you’d have to be many things. One thing is that you have to have a keen eye for…

Not so very long ago – the year was 2008, in fact – audiences had bestowed upon them a gift of a film called Repo!…

If I learned one thing from the horror panel, which is absurd because I actually learned a surfeit of things from that panel, it’s that…

Cargo was one of my most anticipated films of this year’s SXSW. As I had mentioned before, while Sci-Fi is not my expertise, the titles…

If this review were an open letter, it would be addressed to actresses all across Hollywood. In recent years, I’ve bemoaned (on their behalf) the…