Articles by Scott A. Gray

Blade: The Animated Series

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2012

The final entry in Marvel's opening salvo of popular superheroes re-imagined for the Japanese anime market is the left-field choice of Blad...

Berberian Sound Studio

Peter Strickland

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2012

While it works as an abstract, expressionistic identity crisis horror in the vein of a toned-down David Lynch, Berberian Sound Studio's mos...

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

Laurent Cantet

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2012

Seeking empowerment, a victim half-blinded by hate will justify emulating the debasing acts of her or his oppressor. The pronoun is unquest...

The Sessions

Ben Lewin

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2012

Not all itches can be scratched with the mind, especially when that itch is the need for human contact. Based on an article recounting his...

A Late Quartet

Yaron Zilberman

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2012

"When we've been playing together so long, we all go out of tune in our own unique way." Music teacher and member of renowned classical gro...

The Iceman

Ariel Vromen

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2012

The question, "do you have any regrets?" is put to real life contract killer Richard Kuklinski in the opening moments of selective biopic T...

The Company You Keep

Robert Redford

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2012

Call it The Expendables of the self-righteous, forgettable drama set. Call it the dour, humourless, didactic cousin of RED. Outside of glib...

Silver Linings Playbook

David O. Russell

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2012

David O. Russell makes a welcome return to quirky, psychological relationship comedy after the assured, but pandering Oscar-baiting of The...