Features
Tuesday, June 16 2009
20 Questions: Crayton Robey
The Boys in the Band defined a moment in LGBT history. Crayton Robey explores that history in Making the Boys, which debuted at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female
From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.
Tuesday, May 1 2007
Monkey Business (Part 1: May)
Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.
Reviews
Thursday, January 17 2013
Matthew McConaughey Gives Viewers a Strong Jolt of Reckoning in 'Killer Joe'
Killer Joe is a nasty piece of work, a bleak, sadistic but oddly funny noir boasting a startlingly dark turn by Matthew McConaughey as the titular hitman, and a breakout performance by Juno Temple.
Wednesday, October 10 2012
'The French Connection' Is Transcontinental in More Ways Than One
Hailed as a classic in the cop genre, its legacy as the first R-rated film to win the Oscar for Best Picture is undeniable. As if that weren’t enough, a viewing 40 years later reveals how literal the title is: it’s a crime film that bridges '60s French and American cinema.
Tuesday, July 31 2012
Mean and Simple: 'Killer Joe'
William Friedkin's Killer Joe invites you to feel at once repulsed and thrilled by the horrors unfolding so inevitably in its final moments.
Tuesday, April 20 2010
Jade
Jade denies the viewer the pleasures that are needlessly treated as being beyond reach despite being right there on the screen in front of us, begging to be rearranged, realized and enlivened.
Friday, February 19 2010
To Live and Die in L.A.
Encapsulating the sights, sounds, and complexities that define Los Angeles, William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. is a brutal tale of vengeance and vigilantism.
Blogs
Tuesday, March 13 2012
SXSW Film Festival Day 2: 'Killer Joe'
Killer Joe and... well, nothing else mattered.
News
Tuesday, May 29 2007
William Friedkin: A master storyteller returns with Bug
"What a director's doing at all times in a film is creating an atmosphere where the actors feel free not only to perform," William Friedkin…
