Movies
Q & A with Crispin Glover
What does it mean that taboo has been ubiquitously excised in this culture’s media? Crispin Glover wants you to think about it.
Apr 21st, 2010 by Erin Petersen
Westbound
Wisconsin design firm Arketype Productions documents the life and times of Adolph Vandertie, aka the "Grand Duke of the Hobos"
Apr 20th, 2010 by Mark Metcalf
The Joneses
The Joneses was the longest 90 minutes in the dark that I have experienced lately.
Apr 17th, 2010 by Mark Metcalf
Making it Home
A regional film festival aims to help people re-connect with nature, and with each other.
Apr 15th, 2010 by Erin Petersen
Cherie’s bomb
The Runaways is based on Cherie Currie’s recently re-vamped autobiography, and is naturally meant to be her story. I wish it had been.
Apr 11th, 2010 by Jon Anne Willow
How To Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon is fairly predictable, but makes for a charming story that children and grown-ups will love.
Mar 28th, 2010 by Mark Metcalf
Chloe
Director Atom Egoyan's "Chloe" is a definitive example of elegance in film-making.
Mar 27th, 2010 by Mark Metcalf
Greenberg
Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is more like an homage to nothingness and disconnection than it is a quirky, insightful dark comedy.
Mar 26th, 2010 by Mark Metcalf
Lola Montes
After reaching the peak of her career, Lola Montes is forced to participate while her life is exploited, pandering to bloodthirsty crowds as the "repentant whore."
Mar 16th, 2010 by Erin Petersen
Collapse
To drink the Kool-Aid or not? That seems to be the question director Chris Smith and Co. posit in this Errol Morris-inspired documentary about conspiracies come true.
Mar 15th, 2010 by Brian Jacobson
Red Cliff
John Woo's "Red Cliff" is like a chess game played by gods. Except the gods are men-complicated, flawed and necessarily devious men.
Mar 14th, 2010 by Mark Metcalf
Fish Tank
One morning, Mia is making tea in the kitchen when her mother’s new boyfriend appears. A complicated and bruising relationship develops, lubricated by a steady stream of alcohol.
Mar 14th, 2010 by Ryan Findley
