“Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie” – I deserve a billion dollars for sitting through it! Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, cult writers, directors and performers of “Tom Goes to the Mayor” and “Tim and Eric Awesome Show – Great [...]
“Being Flynn,” a passion project from writer/director Paul Weitz based on his own adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir, Another Bulls—t Night in Suck City, is the darkly humorous and heartbreaking story of Flynn’s marginal existence in his 20s as he [...]
“The Lorax,” a beloved children’s book by Dr. Seuss explores questions of the environment in glorious 3D-rendered animation patterned after the drawings of the master himself. And the animation is absolutely eye-popping with super bright neon colors. Once upon a [...]
I’d have opened a vein if it had only stopped the interminable “The Forgiveness of Blood.” Taking place in northern Albania, a country still feudal in its societal relations, two families, long at odds over property that at one time [...]
Yuppies George and Linda, living their “dream” in New York City are sh++ out of luck when he loses his job and her documentary about cancer-ridden penguins in Antarctica (think “An Inconvenient Truth” meets “March of the Penguins”) is passed [...]
“How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?” Such a peculiar title and yet so illustrative of the career arc of Norman Foster, master architect, winner of the Pritzker, Stirling (twice), and Prince Asturias Prizes in art and architecture. The [...]
“Undefeated” is as magnificent as its subjects – the football coach and his underprivileged student/athletes at Manassas High School in poverty-stricken North Memphis, Tennessee. Sure to draw comparisons to “The Blind Side,” this documentary is the real deal, and the [...]
Belgium’s worthy Academy Award-nominated “Bullhead” is a tough film – tough to describe and tough to watch. “Bullhead” is a gangster film centering on the underbelly of European farming with its enforcers and collectors and its use of illegal hormones [...]