movie reviews

L’érotisme

Distributed by Cinema Abbatoir, the compilation of sexually charged films known as L’érotisme is hands down the single most disturbing film project I’ve ever seen. By the way, that’s a...

U2 3D (Review + Background Buzz)

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The Merry Gentleman (Review + Background Buzz)

Batman has chops. Michael Keaton makes his directorial debut with The Merry Gentleman, a soulful drama that shows the one-time caped crusader is as comfortable behind the camera as he is in front of...

Trouble The Water (Review + Background Buzz)

In the very first scene of Trouble The Water, a raw documentary chronicling the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we meet a congenial husband and wife “from New Orleans the Ninth Ward Underwater.” The...

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (Review + Background Buzz)

Perhaps the most anticipated documentary of this year's festival, Morgan Spurlock returns to Sundance with Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden, a follow up his 2004 debut, the piquant Super Size...

Choke (Review + Background Buzz)

An independent dramedy adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name, Choke offers an undeniably quirky ride through a world of kinked out sex addicts, extortionist nuns and historic...

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (Review)

Perhaps the most anticipated documentary of this year's festival, Morgan Spurlock returns to Sundance with Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden, a follow up his 2004 debut, the piquant Super Size...

I.O.U.S.A. (Review + Background Buzz)

A poignant, terrifying and engrossing look at a topic normally relegated to powerpoint presentations by polyester suit clad professors, I.O.U.S.A. is a powerful documentary that makes no qualms about...

Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Review + Background Buzz)

Anvil! The Story of Anvil begins with frenzied head banger concert footage from 1984 focusing on several name bands and then one obscure one - “Anvil”. I thought instantly that this was a rock...

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Review + Background Buzz)

I didn’t know who Roman Polanski was until I was a budding teenage cinephile. I had seen Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown before I knew anything about the director’s storied past or his “fugitive”...