Note from the Editor: Two of our My Cinema staffers saw Man of Steel this weekend and they couldn’t disagree more on whether or not it was actually good. So, in keeping with our grand tradition of writer debates, we’re publishing both perspectives. “You will believe a man can fly” – Superman: The Motion Picture Superman is the first and the greatest superhero. […]
Note from the Editor: Two of our My Cinema staffers saw Man of Steel this weekend and they couldn’t disagree more on whether or not it was actually good. So, in keeping with our grand tradition of writer debates, we’re publishing both perspectives. You have to give Snyder credit for trying. When The Amazing Spiderman […]
Now You See Me is probably not a movie that greatly benefits from repeated viewings, but it is one hell of a fun time. Like Ocean’s 11 with a bit of a Shyamalan twist (from before that became an insult), the movie mostly coasts by on a summer blast of cool carried on the shoulders […]
“Danger is real. Fear is a choice” –Possible Scientology Propaganda I like Will Smith. You like Will Smith. Your grandmother likes Will Smith. Everybody likes Will Smith. So we’ll all like a mini Will Smith, right? That is basic conceit of After Earth, the new Will Smith movie that’s not really a Will Smith movie. […]
One of the most respected figures in world cinema today, Hungarian film auteur Bela Tarr- known for his distinctive highly stylized black and white long takes, apocalyptic stories and melancholic rhythm enhanced by a dramatic score from Mihaly Vig- delights his audience with one last hypnotizing cinematic experience The Turin Horse (2011). Embodying the cinematic […]
When I first saw Rushmore, alone at the Franklin Mall AMC Cinema 6, it was both an effort to ditch my Friday afternoon Intro to Philosophy class and a need to see what the “Bottle Rocket Guys’ would do next. I enjoyed Bottle Rocket, but had sort of dismissed it as a kind of offbeat, […]
In many ways, Baz Luhrman was the perfect director to adapt The Great Gatsby. He really gets the idea of spectacle that covers up inner emotional turmoil (hell, that was pretty much the point of Moulin Rouge). And The Great Gatsby is all about the way the excess of the roaring 20s belied an inner […]
Take a box of tissues and leave your grandparents at home, Michael Haneke is in town! The Austrian writer/director who brought us The Piano Teacher (2001), Cache (2005), and the critically acclaimed 2010 Golden Globe Best Foreign Film winner The White Ribbon (2009), makes a return with another darker-than-ever psychological family drama, Amour (2012). The film- […]