POSTED // Nov 2,2012 - In the realm of fantasy fiction, they call it “world-building”: the appeal of an entirely distinct universe, perhaps based on some future of our own world, perhaps set somewhere and sometime else entirely.

POSTED // Nov 2,2012 - Director Robert Zemeckis has spent a decade focused entirely on photo-realistic computer animation like The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol. With Flight—his first live-action feature since Cast Away in 2000

POSTED // Oct 26,2012 - There is nobility in striving for a cause that seems foolhardy, toward a goal that—if reached—could bring greater joy and understanding to the world.

POSTED // Oct 12,2012 - It seems absurd to those who still associate him with Daredevil, J-Lo and Gigli, but when our backs were all turned, Ben Affleck became a Serious Filmmaker.

POSTED // Oct 12,2012 - Maybe you don’t know the name Martin McDonagh yet. Maybe even if you saw his 2008 feature debut, In Bruges, you didn’t register the filmmaker. But please put this guy on your list of the most brilliantly inventive comic filmmakers in the world.

POSTED // Oct 5,2012 - In 1984, a 25-year-old Disney animator named Tim Burton made a 29-minute live-action short film called Frankenweenie. The charming, lively story found a suburban schoolboy named Victor Frankenstein

POSTED // Sep 28,2012 - Pay attention to Rian Johnson, because he’s trying to tell his audience how to watch his deliriously effective science-fiction thriller Looper. He does it when Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)—a

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.