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Recent Film Articles

“Rules of Engagement”

When CBS’ smash comedy “Rules of Engagement” hit the air in 2007, no one could have foreseen the success it...

Ebony March

Alexander Gould

Alexander Gould is your typical 12th grader: anxious about his college-bound future, unsure about where he’ll end up and...

Film Projections

'Doug Benson's Movie Interruption'

This week, I want to take a breather from my stodgy life as a film writer/lover/watcher. Not to say I could go even one day without...

Candice Winters

Film Interviews

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Lucy Punch is having a TKO year. The 32-year-old British actress has spent the last year working with the likes of Steve Carell,...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

You Again

“High school is a pit of despair,” Kristen Bell declares. “It’s a swirling tornado of insecurities, and there’s really nothing...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Devil

It’s a running joke in Hollywood that the black actor is usually the first to die in any horror movie, but try asking Bokeem...

Samantha Ofole

Film Projections

Cries and Whispers: The The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman

“Auteur” was the term first used in 1950s film theory and derived from the French word for “author,”...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Last Train Home

Last Train Home follows the Zhang family as they spend every dollar of their savings to find a way home to their children. The...

Stephanie Forshee

Film Movie Reviews

Jack Goes Boating

Stage to screen adaptations can be quite challenging, just ask actor-cum-director Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose feature directional...

Samantha Ofole

Film Interviews

The Town

It’s a very pretty-looking cast, especially when they are seated shoulder to shoulder on a platform upon which the thespians...

Candice Winters

Film Interviews

Never Let Me Go

Existentialism is a philosophical term applied to conditions of existence and how one deals with life and death. It has become...

Candice Winters

Film Interviews

Easy A

That which was old is new again. Since the mid-1990s, the cinematic trend of updating classic literature into frothy teen romps...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Catfish

You know what I love about movies in 2010? For the first time in far too long audiences have the opportunity to walk into a theater...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Special Features

Fall Film Guide

Sadly, the 2010 Summer Movie season has been one of the worst in recent memory. Filled with sequels that ranged from the clunky...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

El Súperstar

Satire, when done well, can be one hell of a way to experience comedy. In El Súperstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Francés, moviegoers...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Bran Nue Dae

I made a not-so shocking revelation while watching the Australian musical movie Bran Nue Dae: I am definitely 100 percent American....

Kate Bryan

Film TV Time

'Hellcats'

Robbie Jones is pumped to have a new television series to cheer about. “Hellcats” premieres on the CW this week. On...

Stephanie Forshee

Film Projections

WESTDOC

The oldest form of filmmaking is the documentary. Before even basic special effects, before scriptwriting, before crazy camera...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Something's Gonna Live

Melancholy is the word that comes to mind. Whoever said change was exciting has never been old. I don’t mean old as in...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Sequestro

The film opens with a grisly voice demanding, in Portuguese, that his ransom money ($15,000 U.S.) be paid to him. A young man,...

Arit John

Film Movie Reviews

Race to Nowhere

In her latest documentary, filmmaker and mother of three Vicki Abeles tackles the very personal subject of the current state...

Kate Bryan

Film Movie Reviews

Neshoba: The Price of Freedom

Neshoba County, Miss., was burning with racial hatred in the mid 1960s. It was there in June 1964, during the height of the civil...

Samantha Ofole

Film Interviews

Heartbreaker

On a Friday morning at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., writers sit at a round table awaiting the talent’s...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop

Zhang Yimou’s A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop takes the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple (1984) and re-imagines it as...

Kate Bryan

Film Movie Reviews

White Wedding

Like fine wine, which gets better with time, White Wedding is an infectious, warm-hearted comedy that tackles the chaos that...

Samantha Ofole

Film Movie Reviews

Soul Kitchen

The recipe is right – if not a bit cheesy – for Soul Kitchen, a funny and sincere little movie from writer-director Fatih Akin,...

Abbi Toushin

Film Movie Reviews

The Milk of Sorrow

A title can say so much about a film, and I’d go so far as to say that a strong title makes for a strong movie. Sure, you can’t...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1

Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 is director Jean-François Richet’s excellent follow-up to Mesrine: Killer Instinct....

Nick Day

Film TV Time

"Jerseylicious"

Can’t get enough of the Jersey lifestyle? The Style Network might have just what you need with the brand new, second...

Christopher Agutos

Film Projections

3D Rarities: From 1900 and Beyond

It’s a marvel that is hitting theaters in drones, bombarding the innocent moviegoer with an alternative to the traditional...

Candice Winters