Reviews

  • Review: How to Train Your Dragon

    I’ve never been to the Dreamworks Animation studio, but I’m curious if written on a wall there’s a universal Must Do list that applies to…

  • Foreign Objects: Mad Detective (Hong Kong)

    Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport and get your shots, because…

  • SXSW Review: Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee

    If you’ve never heard of director Shane Meadows, I highly suggest rushing out and renting, if nothing else, Dead Man’s Shoes. It is a horrific,…

  • SXSW Review: Four Lions

    Every so often, it becomes artistically necessary for someone to come along and combine a serious political issue with The Three Stooges. In lesser hands,…

  • SXSW Review: World’s Largest

    With World’s Largest, filmmakers Amy C. Elliott and Elizabeth Donius have created an exhaustive look at the world of quirky small-town America. The kinds of…

  • SXSW Review: Tiny Furniture

    There is an epidemic of sorts in the world of independent filmmaking. It’s something that I blame on the likes of Noah Baumbach and Wes…

  • SXSW Review: Red, White and Blue

    Simon Rumley’s Red, White & Blue is a film about grey areas. There are no heroes or villains in the unforgiving landscape of this film,…

  • SXSW Review: Tony

    The greatest part about film festivals is never the parties, the press networking, interviewing filmmakers, or even sneak peeks of major releases. The best part…

  • SXSW Review: Higanjima

    As foreign films go, Japan is probably my favorite country. There is a freedom of spirit and rejection of inhibition that produces some of the…