Marilyn in Manhattan is just a tiny slice from the life of Marilyn Monroe. It’s not really even a biographical documentary, so much as a slight pastiche of canned interviews and documentary footage relating to the screen siren’s attempt to...
Let’s get this out of the way – I loved The Imposter. This documentary unfolds like a stinking corpse flower; equal parts majestic and revolting. I spent the whole of the 95-minute runtime skeeved, incredulous, and aggravated that it had...
Jay and Mark Duplass are probably two of the biggest names in lo-fi filmmaking with films like Cyrus and The Puffy Chair. The formula seems simple enough: take people, put them in awkward situations, and watch them try and extricate...
Starring Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger, Republic Picture’s Springtime in the Sierras is now available on DVD, (in Trucolor!). Now, if you are into the whole brevity thing there’s a black and white 54 minute edited version easily available...
Beyond the Black Rainbow is either right up your alley, or it is so far away from your comfort zone that you should probably avoid it. This movie is what I imagine would happen if Richard Kelly and David Lynch...
I don’t want to give too much away about Thin Ice. It’s a movie that seems certain to head in a familiar direction, but at the last minute it goes somewhere else. It’s fun, the performances are decent and endearing,...
Anyone who is even slightly annoyed by performance art and/or nudity should stay far away from the documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present. This is an intimate portrait of the woman sometimes referred to as the, “grandmother of performance...
One of the great perks of this job is that I occasionally see movies from cultures I know nothing about. For example: Chile. I know it’s long and thin, and I know they speak Spanish. That’s about it. Now I...
I say this with sincerity; I always go into a film with the hope that it’ll be good. Even when it comes to DVD features like Kill Speed. I’m always hopping that it’s going to be an overlooked gem. That...
The most important thing to know about Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, is that kids will like it, and so will the folks. There is a plot, but really it’s secondary to the barrage of gags spit out like a...