Bright Star, directed by Oscar nominee Jane Campion, is a deeply romantic, visually spectacular film that is stunning in its simplicity. Focusing on the little-known relationship between Romantic poet...
It Might Get Loud, the latest film from An Inconvenient Truth’s Davis Guggenheim, may be less earth-shattering than the director’s previous work but is no less profound.
Post Grad looks like it should be stupid. Its marketing team has done nothing to emphasize the dark humor of its story, nor is its topicality to college students ever mentioned in its advertisements.
In an era when most musical acts seem trivial and fleeting, it’s a wonder that any can retain their relevance for a period of almost 35 years. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have managed to do exactly that.
Taking Woodstock is not, as one might believe, the story of the concert itself; Jimi, Janis, and Jerry play an almost imperceptible role in the film. Rather, Taking Woodstock is the story of how the concert came to be, of how one exasperated young man attempted to save his parents’ failing upstate motel and the musical event of a generation at the same time.
Director Quentin Tarantino’s movie, his best in almost two decades, is nearly flawless. It’s an energetic and violent, though never gratuitous, film and one is hard-pressed to find something to criticize.