Articles by Christine Estima
Chloe
Atom Egoyan
PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2010
Atom Egoyan is one sick piggie. Take a cross-section of the films he's directed and you'll find inside a plethora of sexual deviances and p...
The Runaways
Floria Sigismondi
PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2010
Last year when photos of Kristen Stewart surfaced on the internet dressed in character as legendary rock goddess Joan Jett, the music world...
Brooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's Finest
PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2010
The first words we hear uttered in Brooklyn's Finest, before any scenery or characters come into focus, are "It's about right and wrong." A...
A Prophet
Jacques Audiard
PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2010
Having blown the minds of everyone at the Cannes Film Festival last year (taking home the Grand Prix), and being nominated for Golden Globe...
The Damned United
Tom Hooper
PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2010
Michael Sheen has made a career out of portraying real people: Prime Minister Tony Blair (The Queen), journalist David Frost (Frost/Nixon),...
Creation
Jon Amiel
PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2010
The first image we see in Creation is a foetus in the womb reaching out its fingers in a manner that evokes Michelangelo's infamous Sistine...
Tooth Fairy
Michael Lembeck
PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2010
The major problem with big-studio G-rated films these days is that they assume that just because their audience is young that they must be...
Nine
Rob Marshall
PUBLISHED Dec 24, 2009
When Rob Marshall directed the Oscar-winning Chicago in a time when musicals hadn't fully recaptured their audience, he made a precise choi...