For the final installment of our Oscars Round Up series, Pat Brown gives his take on a film with a staggering 10 Oscar nominations. Second only to ‘The Revenant,’ ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ has gotten the nod in categories from […]
Anomalisa FilmScene — Opens Friday, Jan. 22 The notion of the “uncanny valley” is a familiar topic in discussions around video games and computer animation. It’s a relatively simple idea: animation can be cute, endearing and even empathetic within a […]
Whether we’re cinephiles or not, a lot of us probably spent an inordinate amount of time in our childhood pretending to be characters from… […]
For the past several years, gamers have been in the midst of what will surely be looked back on as the heyday of independent gaming. The number of available indie games continues to increase, in large part thanks to online […]
The documentary Iris is the final film by late filmmaker Albert Maysles, who along with his brother David made two of the most well-known and acclaimed… […]
‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s new film, is a satisfying solution to a problem you may not have known cinema… […]
Writer/Director David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows hits many of the notes that are by now (beyond) familiar to horror aficionados — it is, in part, a good summary of the horror movie tropes of the last 25 years or so. The film includes a relentless stalker, the thematization of teenage sexuality, a handful of fake-out jump scares, unseen-but-material malevolent beings, scary children, heroes who make terrible decisions and a moment of shocking gore. But this rather typical assemblage of tropes and characters belies the film’s originality, which consists more in the effective and often unique way these elements are deployed. […]
Iowa City’s Headroom film series returns on Feb. 4 at Public Space One with a program called the “New England Home Movie Tour”… […]
I am not sure whether there is a better way to give you an idea of what Jean-Luc Godard’s 3-D film Goodbye to Language is, or what it is about… […]
The Tale of Princess Kaguya Opening at FilmScene on Wednesday, Nov. 26 The Tale of Princess Kaguya is animator Isao Takahata’s first film in 14 years, and if you told me that he spent the last decade and a half […]
Director Christopher Nolan has a knack for drawing people into the theater in an age when many can’t be bothered. His latest film Interstellar, promises big-screen… […]
It’s difficult to tell whether director Larry Abrahamson’s comedy-drama Frank benefits from or is hindered by its central conceit: Star Michael Fassbender… […]
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