We all know that Shia LaBeouf rose to prominence on the back of massive, big budget fare made by commercially viable directors. Transformers saw him working with Michael Bay, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was helmed by Spielberg. [...]

We all know and love Tim Robbins. We cheered his successful prison break in The Shawshank Redemption. We marveled at his creepy menace in Arlington Road. But did you know that Robbins also likes to work behind the camera? Perhaps his best [...]

If you’ve never seen/heard the comedy of Mike Birbiglia then you are doing yourself a disservice. A mainstay on the hit public radio show This American Life, Birbiglia tells autobiographical stories that tie into common human anxieties and are both [...]

Beasts of the Southern Wild is a movie that lends itself to multiple viewings, and for good reason. First of all, because it is a fantastic piece of modern cinema, calibrated sensitively for the anxieties of our times. There are natural disasters, uncertain [...]

Sometimes the concept of a movie – the very idea behind it – leads us to believe we have it all figured out before the first frame is shown. When you hear about a film that posits that Abraham Lincoln [...]

Pixar films carry a certain amount of expectation with them purely by dint of being Pixar films. A studio that has made Toy Story, The Incredibles, and Up has a lot to lose by continuing to put out films because no matter how [...]

When I first heard that Joe Wright was directing a new adaptation of Anna Karenina, the landmark novel by Leo Tolstoy, I was intrigued but strangely unmoved. Wright has proven himself a masterful director of both classic literature and period [...]

Young love is a difficult thing to put across on screen. As we grow older we forget the purity of our first tentative steps into the world of emotional connections we cannot understand and do not try to defend or define. That [...]

This is the film no one asked for. No one seemed to want it. Coming so long after the franchise’s lackluster second installment, what could really be expected of it? More tired retreads of similar plot lines, more retconning of [...]

Comedies get a pretty bad rap, probably because their bar for success is so low. All a successful comedy has to do is make people laugh, by any means necessary. Yet even though this may seem a mean feat, it [...]