A group of new images has been released for Star Trek Into Darkness. Enjoy! A group of new images has been released for Star Trek Into Darkness. Enjoy! Release Date: May 17, 2013Director: J. J. AbramsCast: John Cho, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, Bruce […]
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Holiday Movie Preview, 2011
The holiday season is upon moviegoers once again, and that means a new season of movie-watching has begun. This season is always filled with Award contenders, big name Directors making big serious pictures, and the opportunity for actors and actresses to show their best skills on screen–all in the hopes that they will take home […]
Film Rave: Outrage (Dir. Takeshi Kitano 2010 Japan)
It is a little alarming to hear people describe Takeshi Kitano’s latest, Outrage (Autoreiji), as a return to form, since it comes off the back of his masterpiece, Achilles and the Tortoise. What they means is that it’s a return to the straight Yakuza genre with which Kitano started his career, and into which he […]
AFI FEST 2011 Film Review: Alps (Dir. Giogos Lanthimos, 2011, Greece)
Giorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth caused quite a splash last year, so many were eager to see what queasy weirdness his latest would offer. Alps is barely less weird, somewhat less queasy, and just as opaque. Even more than his last film, it also teeters on the verge of being merely affected. A big crash of […]
AFI FEST 2011 Film Review: The Loneliest Planet (Dir. Julia Loktev, 2011, USA/Germany)
This is really a one idea movie, but it’s a very good idea (taken from a short story by Tom Bissell). Nica and Alex are young travelers in Georgia, engaged to be married, who depart on a trek with mountain guide Dato. And then Something Happens. To explain the Something would be to spoil the […]