CIFF 2014: The Midnight After Review
A busload of strangers seemingly become the last humans on Earth after an unexplained apocalyptic event erases all signs of human life in this midnight movie blowout from Hong Kong cult director Fruit...
View ArticleCIFF 2014: Titli Review
Kanu Behl makes a noteworthy directorial debut with this tense and grim Dehli-set crime drama. The film opens with Titli (Shashank Arora), the youngest of three brothers living in the slums of Dehli,...
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Double Exposure: Nightcrawler
Editor’s note: Our “Double Exposure” reviews pit two or more critics against one another on the same film to hash out their differences in opinion. Agree with what we have to say or want to offer your...
View ArticleReview: Open Windows
It was only a matter of time before somebody would stage an entire film within the confines of a computer screen, and that movie is “Open Windows,” written and directed by “Timecrimes” auteur Nacho...
View ArticleReview: Dying of the Light
“Don’t be melodramatic,” advises CIA agent Evan Lake (Nicolas Cage) to his younger partner in the third act of Paul Schrader’s “Dying of the Light.” It’s good advice for an intelligence officer in his...
View ArticleReview: Predestination
“What if I could put him in front of you – the man that ruined your life? Would you kill him?” Rian Johnson and Spielberg may have a few things to say about Predestination, the first film from...
View ArticleReview: The Sleepwalker
A renovation, a secretive past, a garage, and a pregnancy. These are the elements of Mona Fastvold’s debut feature, “The Sleepwalker,” a beautifully filmed and scored story of two sisters and the men...
View ArticleReview: [REC] 4: Apocalypse
[Rec] 4: Apocalypse is to the [Rec] series what Aliens was to the Alien franchise. The film unapologetically abandons the found footage, bare bones style of film making that gave the franchise its...
View ArticleReview: Ex Machina
When films like Alien and Terminator were first released, the reality of true artificial intelligence seemed like nothing more than a distant, decidedly dystopian nightmare – pure science fiction...
View ArticleReview: ’71
The ongoing conflict between the IRA (Irish Republican Army), the British Military Reaction Force, and other English factions has been an underrepresented and mostly ignored topic in English film and...
View ArticleReview: Black Sea
Ah, money: the root of all evil, the source of all greed; we meet again. Black Sea follows a group of men, who have all sacrificed their lives to their nautical professions, who submerge into the...
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Form and Function in Alex Ross Perry’s “Queen of Earth”
Two friends attempt to close their growing emotional distance while vacationing at a lake house in this atmospheric psychological thriller homage from writer/director Alex Ross Perry. Perry is one of...
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