POSTED // Aug 3,2012 - Director Todd Solondz had his moment in the … well, we’ll call it “sunshine” with 1998’s Happiness, a spectacularly assured downer that somehow served as the missing link between John Waters and Ingmar Bergman.

POSTED // Jan 6,2012 - Director/writer/editor/star Takeshi Kitano first made an impact on these shores with a remarkable series of gangster films (most notably 1993’s Sonatine and 1997’s Fireworks)

POSTED // Sep 8,2011 - Comfort food of a very peculiar sort, the all-star disaster-movie cycle of the 1970s derived no small amount of guiltless fun from an ironclad formula

POSTED // Jun 17,2011 - Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Type-A father learns the true value of family (and the complete silliness of overtime) after being confronted by an extraordinary, easily merchandisabl

POSTED // Apr 22,2011 - The idea of the painfully realistic superhero story—the sort of thing where a potential do-gooder realizes that donning a cape and tights is harder than it looks ...

POSTED // Mar 25,2011 - You can spot the thesis in the majority of documentaries, as filmmakers understandably tend to devote their energy toward subjects ...

POSTED // Jan 28,2011 - A stalwart veteran of late-night basic cable, the 1972 Charles Bronson hit-man vehicle The Mechanic remains in the top tier of that era’s B-movies ...