Christopher Presswell’s Candlestick is a fun, “juicy” suspense movie. This independent film takes a relatively small number of elements and makes a full five-course meal out of them. And, although there are a few flaws and mistakes that can easily […]

The entry below has been reposted from the original review which went up on my own blog a few hours before I posted it here. We open on a quiet suburban street. As a frantic, piercing music cue plays, a […]

In 2012, I reviewed a foreign indie film called Id-iology. Will’ Terran’s challenging movie was about deeply-neurotic, unhappy people whose various self-esteem, sexual, and relationship issues devolved into full-on nastiness and destructiveness. It was the sort of work that many […]

Maybe you’ve never heard of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, but he’s a fascinating post-post-post-post-post modern figure, and the unique nature of this 57 year-old’s art is almost as interesting as his relationship with his homeland’s government: although he helped […]

With Coherence, writer/director James Ward Byrkit’s first film, you’ll find a movie that should place him on the “one to watch” of any critics. Why the high praise? Well, Byrkit has served up a solid, character-driven independent sci-fi story with […]

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined A Generation is a well-constructed documentary about the rise of folk music in NYC’s Greenwich Village during the 1960s. Through interviews, archival footage of performances, and narrated statements by Bob Dylan’s former girlfriend, this movie […]

Particle Fever is an excellent 2013 documentary about the scientific community’s biggest endeavor: the construction of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Over 4 years, the director films the work of a team of 10,000 scientists and construction personnel, who […]

The Rep is a solid Canadian documentary that follows just over a year of the lives of Charlie Lawton, Nigel Agnew, and Alex Woodside – a group of Canadians who open the Toronto Underground Cinema, a repertory theater. The three […]

Red Obsession is a 2013 Australian documentary directed by David Roach and Warwick Ross. Unlike many documentaries that I’ve reviewed here, RO‘s focus is tremendously narrow – first, it looks at the France’s famous Bordeaux wine region, and then it […]

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking to Alexia Anastasio. She’s a director, actress, and visual artist who will present her latest film, Little Fishes, at Cannes this year. I had a great conversation with her – enjoying her […]