Cinematic States (Higgins, 2013)
There are film critics and then there are movie guys.
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Ian Delaney Interview
The theory was--or is--that creating borders, or writing ourselves into a corner, facilitates creativity.
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Informant (Meltzer, 2012)
If you’re looking for answers as to who Brandon Darby really is, or what the motivations behind his turning in two young men suspected of planning to bomb the Republican National Convention really were, then this movie will not be a profitable use of time.
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Jewtopia (Fogel, 2012)
With a name like Jewtopia, I thought the movie would be mainly about a Jewish family. But it isn’t.
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Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde (Mitchell, 2013)
Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde is a new documentary film about (as the title suggests) the eventful life of cowboy Dayton O. Hyde, who describes himself as “a cowboy first, a conservationist second, and a writer third.”
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Don Jon (Gordon-Levitt, 2013)
Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Don Jon at 1More Film Blog.
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The Muslims are Coming! (Farsad & Obeidallah)
When asked if their project assumes that Americans (or Christians) are more intolerant or Islamophbic than anyone else, Obeidallah demurred saying they were not so naive as to believe that “any one religion or group could hold a monopoly on prejudice.”
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Gravity (Cuarón, 2013)
Any good political pollster can tell you that the answer is influenced by the way the question is framed. Film critics usually think the question they are answering is, "Was it any good?" The question I get asked the most, however, is, "Did you like it?"
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Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)
The director himself opined that he thought the second half of the film was about "the drift towards moral intuition [and ...] the stuff that makes us human."
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Tio Papi (Rojas, 2013)
Despite the one misgiving about racial stereotyping, I thought Tio Papi was a good family film.