Tag: Films
Review: La La Land
To boot, I loved almost all the separate components of the film individually but I didn’t love the resulting bundle. Aesthetically, my eyes were gently caressed…
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…
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…
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…
Review: The Measure of a Man
If director Stéphane Brizé loved a slice of heart-string-tugging cinema, or sentimental story-telling, then you wouldn’t possibly know given his latest movie, The Measure of…
Review: Hell or High Water
There are old fashioned crime tales of outlaws and the law on their trail, and gripping family dramas driven by blood and money. David Mackenzie’s…
