POSTED // Feb 15,2013 - Early on in Michael Haneke’s harrowing, moving Amour, 80-something-year-old Georges Laurent (Jean-Louis Trintignant) brings his wife, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), back home to their Paris apartment to a life that

POSTED // Feb 14,2013 - Look, I’m gonna be frank here: This whole paranormal and/or apocalyptic teen romance sub-genre that appears to have taken over young-adult literature, movies and the world? It needs to die.

POSTED // Feb 13,2013 - It’s been more than 17 years, yet I have to say the words out loud, painful as they may be: Salt Lake City, I’m starting to wonder if this is going to work out.

POSTED // Feb 8,2013 - Steven Soderbergh recently announced his retirement from making feature films—and it was a bleak day for those who think “genre” is a dirty word if you love movies.

POSTED // Feb 1,2013 - Leading up to the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, I started the “#SundanceReality” Twitter hashtag, including a comment that “Attendees tend to over-praise comedies

POSTED // Feb 1,2013 - If you heard the basic concept for Rust & Bone and assumed it was just another “wounded person learns to heal” drama, you’d be partly right. But not likely in the way you were thinking.

POSTED // Jan 25,2013 - Conventional wisdom—and far too many examples to mention—suggest that when a veteran actor finally steps behind the camera, the result is usually a very “actor-ly” piece.

POSTED // Jan 22,2013 - During the Q&A following the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Austenland, Salt Lake City-based writer Shannon Hale described the dream come true of “Mormon ladies sitting around making a movie.”

POSTED // Jan 16,2013 - Obligatory tautological disclaimer: A movie is a movie, and a book is a book. Not only can you not always judge a book by its cover, but you often can’t judge a movie by its book.

POSTED // Jan 16,2013 - You might not think you’ve seen too many movies by directors in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival lineup—but chances are good that you actually have.