There’s quite the debate raging right now on two fronts that have become too interlocked in recent years that it’s strange to remember a time when such a conversation wasn’t being had in at least some portion of the film community – between critics and fans and, consequently, reviews (Rotten Tomatoes specifically) and box-office takings, particularly in the US. This past week, some…
Read More »

Loud, ramshackle and far to eager to impress, punk meets aliens picture How to Talk to Girls at Parties is like every bad gig you’ve ever been to in a small venue in which a band attempts to poorly regurgitate a bunch of cliched ideas and postures.
Read More »

Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) will make you chuckle a number of times and maybe even make you feel a little choked up – but not much. It’s good, it’s fine, it’ll do. But afterwards you’ll have a hankering for something more substantial.
Read More »

Not quite absurd enough, following a somewhat generic, inane narrative that it supposedly set-out to deconstruct.
Read More »

There’s quite the debate raging right now on two fronts that have become too interlocked in recent years that it’s strange to remember a time when such a conversation wasn’t being had in at least some portion of the film community – between critics and fans and, consequently, reviews (Rotten Tomatoes specifically) and box-office takings, particularly in the US. This past week, some…
Read More »

Dean lays down a solid foundation for Martin’s career behind the camera.
Read More »

For the most part Redoutable is actually a rather fun and frothy comedy, filled with broad gags.
Read More »

Loud, ramshackle and far to eager to impress, punk meets aliens picture How to Talk to Girls at Parties is like every bad gig you’ve ever been to in a small venue in which a band attempts to poorly regurgitate a bunch of cliched ideas and postures.
Read More »