In Charleston, Mississippi, racial integration was never quite accomplished. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered school integration but...

This Oscar-nominated film is a strangely stage-y Russian version of the ultimate jury-room drama, 12 Angry Men — the Lumet version, no...

Orphan is one of those oddities that are hard to recommend without spoiling. On the surface, the film is about a couple, Kate and John Colem...

The opening sequence in Kathryn Bigelow's latest is one of the most suspenseful action sequences of the year. Gorgeously shot, with an almos...

Food, Inc. is one of those documentaries that tells you something you already know (or should, in this day and age) but does it so eloquentl...

Admittedly, I am a Star Trek fan, so it was with a heady mixture of excitement and trepidation that I awaited the arrival of this "reboot" o...

In Charleston, Mississippi, racial integration was never quite accomplished. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered school integration but...

Ghost Bird is a beautifully photographed investigation into a sighting a few years ago of an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in the swamps of rural...

Jamie Foxx stars as the titular soloist, Nathaniel Ayres, a gifted cellist with mental health issues who's "discovered" by L.A. Times journa...

In my imagination, writer/director team Mark Nevaldine and Brian Taylor (who use last names only in the credits of all their films) live on...

It's not entirely clear why The Education of Charlie Banks takes place in late '70s/early '80s New York but my guess is that it's the time p...

Takemura (Jô Odagiri) is a wild-haired slacker drifting aimlessly through life without plans, ambitions and seemingly, without even fa...

Mid-'70s NYC was apparently precisely the fun, sexy, exciting den of vice that those of us who weren't there imagine it was. We know about t...

I am a huge and totally unapologetic Vin Diesel fan, and I have to admit even I was fairly sceptical about the potential merits of the fourt...

I loved Koen Mortimer's debut feature, Ex Drummer, a lot but I'm also aware of how difficult the film is. It's a raw, brutal, unflinching, v...

Ce Qu'il Faut Pour Vivre (The Necessities of Life) is a beautiful, bittersweet story of an Inuit hunter trying to make it in the strange sou...

The Uninvited is a remake of the Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters, which was directed by Kim Ji-woon, who recently made the awesome The Goo...

In 2005, Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen directed Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Dunn was a self-professed metal nerd who happened to also be an...

Director James Dodson has finally broken out of a career of straight-to-video thrillers with this, his debut romantic comedy, the latest in...

Unless subtitles count as a "special features,” there is no bonus material whatsoever on the new extended cut DVD of Terrence Malick’s The N...