Whether you’ve seen none or a hundred westerns, chances are the conventions of the genre are rattling around somewhere in your consciousness. Images of dusty cow-towns, duels at high noon on Main Street and marauding, …
1-thumb-400×222.jpg” width=”400” height=”222” alt=”RichardTheVisitor.jpg” class=”mt-image-left” style=”margin: 0 20px 20px 0;” /> Editor’s note: Chuck Koplinski wrote a review for The Visitor on May 30 and the link is embedded in the film’s title below. Area …
1-thumb-400×200.jpg” width=”400” height=”200” alt=”enter-movie-ghosttown-2-mct1.jpg” class=”mt-image-left” style=”margin: 0 20px 20px 0;” /> The riskiest move where films are concerned these days is to attempt to make a movie that relies on charm or romantic ideals. Swing …
Some movies come from out of nowhere to surprise and delight you, as well as re-instill a degree of hope for the medium as well. Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges did that for me when I …
Since 1998, the American Film Institute has been issuing lists touting a wide variety of “great” features present in homegrown movies. Not content to rest on its laurels with its 100 best American movies, the …
Steve Coogan’s road to fame in Hollywood has been a rocky one. But one gets the impression that such a thing doesn’t matter to him, having established himself already as one of the premiere British …
1-thumb-200×296.jpg” width=”200” height=”296” alt=”manonwire_galleryposter1.jpg” class=”mt-image-right” style=”float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;” /> There is much more than meets the eye in James Marsh’s thrilling new documentary, Man on Wire. On the surface, the film …
1-thumb-400×274.jpg” width=”400” height=”274” alt=”The Rocker.jpg” class=”mt-image-left” style=”margin: 0 20px 20px 0;” /> August has been described as wearing a “golden crown,” has been said to “rush by like desert rainfall” and “create as she slumbers.” …
It has been said that in politics, we get the candidates we deserve. The same could be said for movies. Nothing dictates more what you see at the multiplex than what has been successful at …
1-thumb-400×265.jpg” width=”400” height=”265” alt=”x-files-2_21.jpg” class=”mt-image-left” style=”margin: 0 20px 20px 0;” /> It comes as no surprise that the latest, and probably final, chapter of the X-Files saga is failing at the box office. Not only …
