For the past year and a half, Kino International has been steadily releasing their acquired Buster Keaton catalog on blu-ray. Each release is a bit better than the one before it; from artwork to restoration. Go West and Battling Butler, while not the absolute best that ...


The precarious life – and struggle to avoid death - of the Loggerhead Sea Turtle is illustrated beautifully in Nick Stringer’s Turtle: The Incredible Journey, a film that began its own North American sojourn back in 2009...
In the over caffeinated mega-male screaming-is-acting homophobic cinema of Michael Bay, really loud explosions occur just as often as farts do and leave a lingering odor no bottle of expensive cologne can ...
With faces frozen in horror, Death’s carriage arrives for the terrible soul of David Holm. A reckless sinner, fouled with drink and consumption, and responsible for a great many grievances and other human suffering is Holm and it seems Death, that strict master, is ...
Timeless is one of the many adjectives you could use to describe. Beautiful is another. There is a soul-stirring joy that washes over a person while watching Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Perhaps because this ...
Richard Ayoade, probably best known for his role in Britain’s The IT Crowd, accepts as his first directorial challenge, the adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s quirky, coming-of-age novel called Submarine. A daunting challenge for ...
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is a beautiful film, but it isn't a good film. While the relevance of this comment within the context of what makes a film “good” can certainly be debated, its clarity becomes...
The Biblical themes and Shakespearean influences running throughout Disney’s masterpiece, The Lion King, are part of why this gem is more than a perfect film. The rich music - songs by Elton John and Tim Rice ...
There’s a dangerous sense of urgency that outlines the case for first-time director Michael Webber’s The Elephant in the Living Room. In spite of its playful and clever title, this is one documentary that is deadly serious about...
The murder mystery format turns sleazy in this exploitation offering from genre-hopping director Sergio Martino. The Italians have always had an eye for exposing skin and mixing beauty with ...
Owing a huge debt to the beauty of Genndy Tartakovsky's Samurai Jack, Jennifer Yuh's Kung Fu Panda 2 exploits what worked best about the 2008 original but wraps itself in a less satisfying narrative this time around. Most of the pathos of the film ...
My love of film began as a four-year old in 1979 being taken to a small town drive-in, and, for the first time in my young life, being completely transfixed by what unfolded before me. Watching Star Wars was remarkably formative for me ...

