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Everybody’s Fine - Film Review

Posted on19. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

by Brent Simon A sensitively told remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s same-named 1991 Italian film, Everybody’s Fine slots in respectably as the holiday season’s obligatory commercial drama of familial reconciliation. Robert De Niro stars as Frank Goode, a blue-collar retiree and recent widower from a small, south-central suburban New York burgh who, in the wake of [...]

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Moon - Film Review

Posted on19. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.

by Todd Gilchrist While I’ve never been particularly keen on filmmakers who openly reference big-name works in the service of creating their own (the Tarantinos of the world are exempt by virtue of the obscurity of their sources of inspiration), I admire the fact that writer-director Duncan Jones tapped no less than 2001 as a [...]

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Choke Film Review

Posted on01. Sep, 2008 by Administrator.

by Todd Gilchrist As the second Chuck Palahniuk adaptation to grace the silver screen – following the iconoclastic charms of Fight Club – Choke arrives in theaters with seriously high expectations. Like its predecessor, the story’s protagonist is an otherwise nondescript fellow who is largely defined by dubious behavior, and the protagonist’s story takes the [...]

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