Takers is a small but pleasant surprise, an efficient late-summer action-heist film with a tight script and solid performances from an amiable ensemble cast. If it invites but doesn’t quite earn comparisons to Michael Mann’s …
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The director of C-Line Films’ Family Affair, Chico Colvard attempts to tell the story of family incest from the perspective of one who is neither victim nor abuser.
Of course, one can’t explore the film nor …
The first thing you see in Belle de jour is a long stretch of rural road in a French country scene so impossibly picturesque it seems to belong in an art museum. A horse-drawn carriage …
A few years ago I wrote in a review that in an age of fatwahs and culture wars, I was reluctant to the point of refusal to use the word “immoral” when describing a film. …
In soccer (or football, as the non-American world stubbornly persists in calling it), there is a rule that states that an offensive player must have at least one defensive player between him and the goal …
Context is–well, not everything–but it is important.
If I had watched Gun Crazy (a.k.a. Deadly is the Female) a year ago…well, okay, I would not have watched it a year ago, but if I had, I …
I’m not sure if I am the first or only person to approach Homemade Hillbilly Jam as an auteur piece, but given the success of Rick Minnich’s later film, Forgetting Dad, I don’t think I’ll …
