Tag: Cinema
Listmania: Al's Top 5 Films From Spring 2016
Hey everybody. My name is Al Robinson, and as much as I love movies, I equally love making lists, especially lists about movies. Last…
Film Honors: 1997
My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…
Film Honors: 1996
My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…
Review: Disorder
Taking a break from the apparent horrors of soldierhood, Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a brooding, guarded man, whose post-traumatic stress disorder hangs from him like…
Film Honors: 1995
My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…
Film Honors: 1994
My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…
Review: Chronic
The Cannes Film Festival is a real special and integral part of the movie year. Many of those films shown there to the very lucky…
Review: The Light Between Oceans
There are many moments in The Light Between Oceans when cinematographer Adam Arkapaw beautifully captures the rich tones of both night and day amidst the…
Ian Nichols' Film Brief 2016
Horror is Here to Stay. Whereas 2015 was a year for horror to experiment metaphor, narrative, and aesthetic (see: The Falling, Spring, Goodnight Mommy, It…
Steve Schweighofer's Film Brief 2016
Somehow 2016 has not ended for me. The acidic taste left by the temper tantrums thrown by spoiled citizens in the world’s most privileged countries…
Daniel Smith-Rowsey's Film Brief 2016
Did the studios fiddle while Rome burned in 2016? In other words, should Hollywood have done more to stop Trump and the Republican Party taking…
Review: Nocturnal Animals
Nocturnal Animals takes the split-plot of a woman reading her ex husband’s latest book, in which we follow her reaction (and current blemished life status),…
Review: Florence Foster Jenkins
As acting goes, both Meryl Steep and Hugh Grant pulled another rabbit out of their hats in Stephen Frears’ latest blend of the comic and…
Al Robinson Predicts the Golden Globes
It’s almost time to hand out some more best of the year film awards. This time it’s from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the…
