Cinema Sentries

Just because you’re not doing wrong doesn’t mean you’re doing right.

An interview with Anita Coulter about TR!CKSTER and the art of setting up shop.

Comedy and horror don’t always mix, but when you get the alchemy right it’s really gory good fun.

It does a little too much telling.

The gang go to India, Italy, and the U.S.

Sometimes a kammerspielfilm shoots itself in the foot and that’s the problem with The Ledge in a nutshell.

In its genre, John Carter gives you exactly what you’re expecting to see.

The aging courtesan and her young gentleman companion are not in love, they merely have a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Sometimes it’s not enough to want revenge and justice, you have to have a plot too.

A classic in its own right.

It disappointed more than it charmed.

It exists somewhere between generic indie and art/experimental film.

An event 25 years in the making.

Believe the hype: The acclaimed 2010 feature from the writer/director/star of HBO’s “Girls” brings early Woody Allen to mind.

A worthwhile addition to any film lover’s collection.

Korean Gothic horror underpinned by psychological drama and literary Naturalism.

Could be aptly re-titled Surviving Greed.

You’re supposed to be laughing with the sinners instead of crying with the saints, not just laughing at the plot line.

Films that don’t quite fit anywhere else.

A night of unexpected endings.

The historic 50th festival continues with a strong collection of shorts and a moving pictorial.

Day 2 features filmmakers of the past and the present.

The 50th AAFF opens with a short film program focused on technical experimentation.

Director Stephen Kessler explores celebrity and addiction in the life of pop-culture icon, Paul Williams.

Any of these come to your mind?

Tarsem Singh gives the world another reason to be disappointed in the Greeks.

A perfect mixture of live action, animation, and puppets.

As a true independent film, it is a refreshing look at a challenging subject.

Forget the envelope; just continue reading.

With a line like “If I wasn’t a transvestite terrorist, would you marry me?” at least you know Kitten won’t bore you.

Naming your comedy “Buzzkill” might be asking for trouble.

Erick Zonka directs a wonderfully complex Tilda Swinton as Julia in a twisty tale of a kidnapping gone horribly awry.

Well, it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve seen.

How building a better tomorrow destroyed a community’s ‘today.’

Sometimes what happens outside the ring is just as interesting as the fights, and that’s certainly true for The Fighter.

The thing that replaced 3-D as the biggest threat to Film in 2011.

A wonderful film that doesn’t deserve to be forgotten.

Tom Cruise delivers with his latest installment in the saga of Ethan Hunt, the star secret agent of IMF.

A minor effort from the director of If…, featuring beautiful photography and sophomoric surrealist satire.

A not entirely happy amalgam of genres sometimes just makes genre-soup.

Even though padded to feature length, this documentary is a must-see for aficionados of theater, movies, and gay cultural history.

In guerrilla warfare on home turf, things are always more personal.

More like a mild soap opera than a tabloid shocker, but good photography and music.

A tale of family and loyalty and dirty cops in New York that could have been so much more.

An amusing/disturbing, funny/depressing little documentary about a nearly forgotten cult “audio verite” hit from 20 years ago.

Roman Polanski’s third feature film gets a much-deserved Criterion treatment.

Looking for insight into the Baby Boomers through the literature and film that influenced it and it produced.