Craig Zobel's first feature film, "Great World Of Sound," was a low-key charmer that I enjoyed enormously. It's got a great unique voice, and I don't think it easily fits any single genre description.&...
It's been more than a year since FOX debuted "The Chicago Code," which was the most recent show in an unfortunate but amusing tradition of shows promoted relentlessly with the same shouted line in every prom...
Todd Rohal had an unnaturally long period of time pass between the production of his first film, "The Guatemalan Handshake," and his second, "The Catechism Cataclysm." Five years between movi...
I'm starting to get a little confused about which festival I'm attending, because while everything I see in Austin this week says "SXSW," it's got a distinctly "Fantastic Fest" vibe going on.
I ...
I wasn't sure what to make of "Bob's Burgers" when it debuted last spring. Where FOX had been content for a while to let its Sunday animated lineup be dominated by "The Simpsons," "Family Guy&...
Coming of age stories depend upon authenticity if they are to have any power whatsoever. I've certainly seen enough phony versions of a young man's first steps into a larger world to know when something rings tr...
I have always found the idea of a horror franchise to be somewhat backwards.
Horror frequently relies on the unknown to scare us. There is an involuntary element to what happens when a great scare delivers.&n...
I watched and reviewed almost all of ESPN's "30 for 30" films, but since the documentary series relaunched last year under the simpler ESPN Films banner, I have to admit I've lost track. I have DVDs of all...
Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard are very clever.
Clever does not always translate, though, to creating something that engages an audience and that works as a film experience, particularly when you're talking about som...
We have become so strident and divided on the subject of politics in this country that it's easy to look at the new film "Game Change" (Saturday at 9 p.m. on HBO), about Sarah Palin's role in the 2008 presid...
