Last year The Hunger Games introduced us to a world with a, frankly, fucked-up status quo. A post-apocalyptic society where a geographical caste system is pushed to it’s extreme, where poverty is rife at one end and opulence is indulged at the other (Occupy eat your heart out) and, each
There Will Be Ick. Cornelia (Luminita Gheorghiu) is a wealthy woman who loves her son. Really loves him. As in rubs his bruised back with ointment and a rubber glove for longer than is an appropriate amount of time. Yeah, she loves him THAT much. Cornelia's world of fine dinners, recitals and
Be Italian! It's a hard thing being tasked with reviewing Fellini's 8 1/2. The finest minds that ever deemed it necessary to critique cinema have all thrown their two cents into the 8 1/2 well. It is a film frequently ranked among one of the best films ever made. Film courses
The soundtrack for the Coen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis falls into a special sub-category of film soundtracks, the of the non-original soundtrack. The album produced by legendary producer T Bone Burnett as well as the Cohen brothers themselves is a beautiful mix of traditional and well known folk style songs re-arranged
It's just as interesting to read the online comments as watching the film. Alex Gibney must now be in the running for our greatest current documentarian. The man seems to release films of high quality at an alarming rate, yet none feel rushed or that he hasn't given anything but his
