by Craig J. Clark
Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen turn their personal experience into fodder for this slight but charming indie about a frustrated American filmmaker and a Norwegian dancer he loved and lost.
Before his horror breakthrough The Descent, Neil Marshall made a terrific debut with this movie-crazy werewolf thriller, about military exercises gone terribly wrong in the Scottish wilderness.
While the French New Wave gets all the attention from cinephiles, the popular films of the day get left out of the conversation. A new double feature of escapist Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicles offer a glimpse.
While the French New Wave gets all the attention from cinephiles, the popular films of the day get left out of the conversation. A new double feature of escapist Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicles offer a glimpse.
Though uneven and hampered by go-nowhere subplots, Rick Famuyiwa’s Sundance hit mostly lives up to its title, especially when it hangs within the margins of the margins alongside teenage geeks living in the L.A. suburb of Inglewood.
Despite the unfortunate title, Andrew Disney’s ensemble comedy about intramural football isn’t a lowbrow, juvenile sports movie, but a smart, absurdist, self-referential parody of one.
Catching Mickey Rourke during his decade as a promising leading man, before his sojourn as a boxer changed his physique and his career, two films revealed his considerable star power while failing to aid his ascendancy.
Writer-director Craig Goodwill’s twisted, big-hearted comic fantasy delves into the dark, violent origins of Cabbage Patch Kids and the people who operate the sweatshops that produce them.