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(Note- this review is based on the 125 minute "director's cut" of the film) It just wouldn't be an Abel Ferrara film wi...

A Town of Love and Hope (1959) *** - “Broken families often produced crooked children.” So says the wealthy brother of Kyoko (Yuki Tominaga...

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation As an unequivocal fan of writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, it's hard to find too many faults wit...

During one scene of Frederick Wiseman's 1974 marathon documentary, "Welfare", a man who has come down to the aforementioned Ne...

Fully aware that I'm sounding like the old man yelling at the kids playing in the street to "keep it down" at 3pm in the after...

1. Cartel Land (2015)- Kind of makes me wish Trump does get elected president and build one of those high walls. Reviewed in full at  Dalla...

Whether he's training his camera on the autumnal haze of sleepy "Belfast, Maine"- with its potato plants, church choirs and lo...

The Tribe Eastern European miserablism strikes again in Miroslav Slaboshpitsky's "The Tribe", except this time its long-take...

Bill Pohlad's "Love and Mercy" gets two things right. First, it reveals the fractured genius of singer-songwriter Brian Wilson...

1. Tomorrowland (2015)- Take a spoonful of "The Matrix's" well-tread ideas of a 'chosen one', cartoon action sequences...

New band Hop Along certainly rocks, mostly due to lead singer Francis Quinlan's sharp, pained voice that sounds as if it's going to ...

French filmmaker Henri Verneuil hit his stride in the late 60's and early 70's with a trilogy of films including "The Sicilia...

The following is an ongoing exploration of the prolific work of actress Maggie Cheung In the Mood For Love   (2000), directed by ...

I doubt this is still contemporaneous with the advent and growth of streaming, but I still love holding a DVd disc in my hand. So, the next ...

Child 44 Daniel Espinosa's "Child 44" is a meandering, gloomy hybrid that successfully merges the murder-mystery thriller a...

Austin Filmmaker Hannah Fidell's technical and thematic maturity doesn't seem to fit her young age (now only 28)..... especially sin...

Woman In Gold Based on a true story about an aging woman's quest to see the Klimt artwork that was stolen from her family during World...

One of the better songs so far this year. Continuing the strong year for female singer-songwriters. Carlile deserves her hard sough...