Butter (JimField Smith, 2012)

Butter  is an unfunny, arrogant satire that tries to skewer the Midwest but exists so far outside the realm of reality that it says more abo...

Musketeer Mania

I've got not one but two (sadly not three) pieces on Musketeer movies freshly up on the Internet. One is a discussion between myself and...

Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)

Rian Johnson's Looper takes great pains to head off any in-depth discussion of the paradoxes and metaphysical nightmares associated wit...

Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)

Hail Mary  follows logically from his previous 1980s work even as it marks one of the biggest departures of his always shifting career. The ...

Head Games (Steve James, 2012)

Steve James' weakest feature almost doesn't even feel like a James film at first, presenting a straightforward call to increased saf...

Center Stage (Stanley Kwan, 1992)

[The following is my Blind Spots review for September] Using period-appropriate filming techniques for movies set in the 20th century is har...

The Top 10 Tony Scott Films

[This is an entry in my Favorite Directors Blogathon .] It can sometimes be difficult to separate out Tony Scott's gifts as a populist f...