I, Frankenstein is the type of film you can easily disregard and treat as a joke just from the posters and cookie-cutter trailer alone. I went into the film determined not to judge this book by its cover and to
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Screening at the 2014 Alliance French Film Festival. Click HERE for the festival schedule and to purchase tickets. Bright Days Ahead tells the story of Caroline (Fanny Ardant), a recent retiree who joins a senior’s club.
Written by Cassandra Singh. College lecturer Nick and school teacher Meg, Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, respectfully, are a long-married British couple who, for their 30th wedding anniversary, decide to revisit Paris in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Finding that
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Nebraska marks Alexander Payne’s first feature film as director for which he isn’t credited as the screenplay’s writer, or at least co-writer. You couldn’t tell though, the filmmaker’s sensibilities run through the core of this fine
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Dallas Buyers Club sees Matthew McConaughey give a career-best performance in a film that not only works beautifully as a multilayered drama, but excels as a film with a powerful social agenda. Dallas Buyers Club is based on the
Written by Lily Davis. After the recent death of Nelson Mandela in December of last year, all eyes turned to the release of his biopic and its representation of the legendary man. Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom had actually been
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. The general consensus when the RoboCop reboot was announced was resoundingly negative. The early images of the titular man-machine’s “new look” didn’t inspire confidence, then came along the news that they were to deliver the film
Written by Zac Platt. Over their 30-year-long careers, Joel and Ethan Coen have learned how to distil their films down into their raw philosophical and cinematic elements. Time and again they have bucked the need for story resolution or structural
Written by Zac Platt. Sure it’s easy to dismiss Justin Bieber’s Believe as nothing more than the piece of marketing fluff it is, but let’s give director Jon M. Chu the benefit of the doubt. Not only has he worked
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. When a film is based on a much-loved novel, comparisons between the two are inevitable. Audiences will either crucify filmmakers for failing to match readers’ imaginations, or embrace them for their interpretations. The Book Thief, based
