Objectively, Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair tells a fascinating tale of palace intrigue, the birth of the Enlightenment, treachery, insanity, and illicit sex. These are all things that I enjoy watching. I also […]

Sometimes, you think up a headline for a blog post and you just have no choice but to use it. Also, sometimes (always) you are given the opportunity to see a […]

The more I think about it, the weirder Spring Breakers becomes. It is in no way a normal kind of movie. It is a Harmony Korine movie, and Harmony Korine […]

I am a big fan of Park Chan-Wook‘s. Perhaps that makes me a Wookie? If so, I can live with that. His films—previously made in Korea in Korean—are bloody and […]

If I asked you to name that George Roy Hill film, you know, the one written by William Goldman and starring those two handsome dudes, Robert Redford and, uh, the […]

The moon. What is it doing up there? Where did it come from? Who lives inside it? How did they get there? Why aren’t we digging inside it this very […]

Today I received the following email: Isn’t that amazing? I’m only disappointed that I wasn’t able to trek to this mysterious, Neolithic, monument to see it gussied up with new […]

One thing I love about old movies is the window they open on the past. It doesn’t matter when they’re set, be they westerns, science fiction, or contemporary. It doesn’t […]

Oz the Bland and Predictable. Oz The Dull and Pitiable. Oz The Safe and Marketable. Oz The…zzzzzzzzzzz. Could you make a movie worse than Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great and […]

I was in love with David Cronenberg movies before I ever saw one. I must have been about 12 when I heard about a movie called Scanners (’80) in which […]

The most alarming thing a filmmaker can say when turning a novel into a movie is, “We’re being true to the book.” This is a terrible thing to do. What […]

I finally saw the documentary Searching For Sugar Man, the hit from Sundance ’12 that just took home an Oscar last week. I liked it, and I can see why […]