The Tick

I must say, as much as I completely hate Fox for canceling just about all of their good shows in favor of retaining pure drivel, most of the...

Solaris (1972)

When legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky saw Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey , he hated it for its cold...

The Incredible Hulk

2008 will certainly go down as the year of the superhero movie. There was a string of surprisingly great romantic comedies ("Forgetting...

Secrets & Lies

It takes a certain amount of gumption to try to raise funding for a film and gather a cast without a single word committed to a page, but Mi...

Happiness

Just how much dramatic irony can you pack into one word? Todd Solondz seems willing to find out with the title of Happiness , a vicious soci...

Juno

When I first saw Juno last January, I walked out of the theater knowing I'd seen a great movie, but I couldn't quite say why. I wat...

Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa's Ran , an adaptation of King Lear , was one of the best Shakespeare adaptations I've ever seen (second only to Chime...

Gimme Shelter

There are plenty of documentaries that capture the end of life, of dreams, of careers; but how many have shown us the end of an era? I'm...

Mississippi Burning

I seem to forever be one movie behind when I review, always reviewing the film before the film I just finished. Well, I'm gonna play cat...

The Silence of the Lambs

In my ongoing quest to grow the hell up and get over my childish fear of the horror genre-- though I believe most horror filmmakers would be...

Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts Vol. 1

As strange as Werner Herzog's feature-length films are, his shorts are often weirder. Freed of the necessity of at least some narrative,...

Once Upon a Time in America

In 1969 Sergio Leone released the epic Once Upon a Time in the West , a commentary on his own bloody spaghetti Westerns that examined what b...

Land of Silence and Darkness

Werner Herzog got his start in the 60s making short documentaries and narrative films for television, finally producing feature-length work ...