‘s Difficult to Forget

Here’s one of the more unusual ideas to come to movie screens in quite some time. Frank casts Michael Fassbender in a role that forces the actor’s face to be obscured beneath an enormous mask for the majority of the…

‘t Resonate Emotionally

Yet another page in the young-adult novel-to-film-adaptation turns in If I Stay. Simply put, this is the story a young cellist in a coma who has an out-of-body experience and gets to overhear her friends and family members express their…

‘t Offer Much in the Way of Logic

The Giver is the latest entry in a series of young adult book-to-film adaptations. The original 1993 book has a good reputation and it’s clear that later titles like Divergent have borrowed elements of its story. Yet even if the…

CALVARY Is the Darkest of Black Comedies

Dark comedies don’t come much more pitch black than Calvary, the new film that re-teams actor Brendan Gleeson with director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard). Like their previous collaboration, in between some off-color humor there’s some thoughtful rumination on mortality…

RAGNAROK Is a Fun, Old-Fashioned Adventure

Often, foreign movies are perceived strictly as arthouse fare, filled with heavy and ponderous themes. However, there’s just as much variety in world cinema as there is anywhere else. The Norwegian film Ragnarok screams old-fashioned Saturday matinee adventure from its…