POSTED // Sep 28,2012 - Yes, writer/director Craig Zobel’s unsettling drama Compliance provides a harrowing true-life demonstration of the infamous Milgram experiment in blind deference to authority.

POSTED // Sep 21,2012 - Is The Master—Paul Thomas Anderson’s hauntingly intimate epic—about Scientology? That’s been the focus of attention for many with only peripheral interest in the film itself,

POSTED // Sep 14,2012 - David Cronenberg has spent a 35-year filmmaking career exploring the line where people cross into an obsession that comes to define them and prevent them from connecting with other humans.

POSTED // Sep 14,2012 - “Why?” It’s an obvious question, when pondering the “upgraded” theatrical re-release of older films. But it’s really only half of the question.

POSTED // Sep 7,2012 - It’s time again for potentially prestigious projects based on books. Here are some of the lesser-known literary works coming to your multiplex before year’s end.

POSTED // Aug 29,2012 - Lawless is a portrait in anti-heroism, the real-life story of larger-than-life characters whose appeal comes from their refusal to play by the rules.

POSTED // Aug 24,2012 - The expression “B-movie” generally gets tossed around pejoratively, but here’s the God’s honest truth: Good B-movies like Premium Rush may be a rarer breed than virtually any other kind of movie you could name.

POSTED // Aug 17,2012 - I’m not saying the entire feature animation industry has been listening directly to me. But I’d like to say thank you. You guys are starting to get me.

POSTED // Aug 17,2012 - If there’s one thing The Expendables 2 is really good at—and there is pretty much just this one thing—it’s demonstrating that 2010’s The Expendables was a one-joke wonder

POSTED // Aug 10,2012 - People who think a lot about movies tend to put directors in tidy boxes. Call it a remnant of the auteur theory, but we don’t quite know what to do with directors who dabble about in ways that don’t fit an easily defined artistic compartment.