Tag: film

The best way to describe Kelly Reichardt’s new film “Certain Women” is literary fiction made visual. Watching the images appear on screen, it’s easy to…

The city of Los Angeles and film noir go together like peanut butter and jelly, Sonny and Cher, or Bogart and jewel-encrusted falcons from Malta.…

J.J. Abrams seems to have his hands in every proverbial cookie jar these days. Whether he’s producing a show for Hulu (such as “11.22.63”), rebooting…

Don’t believe everything you’re told as a child. Contrary to what we’re told in our youth, cake can be a substitute for dinner, bedtimes are…

Animated movies aren’t synonymous with thought-provoking material. They are the kind that forces audiences to ruminate on the nature of human existence or some other…

Know what a mortgage backed security is? How about a collateralized debt obligation? Does the term subprime mortgage ring a bell? If you answered no…

With its orchestral overture, 15-minute intermission, three-plus hour running time, and 70mm film photography, Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” alludes to the epic historical films…

I once heard a Holocaust survivor say that movies made about the Nazis’ atrocities during World War II are only ever just movies, as they…

In an age when spectacle almost always trumps story in film, it’s sometimes easy to forget that movie magic starts with the characters. If you…

Steven Spielberg has tackled the Civil War, the First World War, the Second World War and even the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was only a matter…