Leave No Trace Movie Review: Debra Granik beautifully explores home and trauma

Leave No Trace is really a coming-of-age story with the style and themes we’ve come to expect from Debra Granik, who will now be known as the woman who introduced Jennifer Lawrence to the world in Winter’s Bone. Comparisons to…

Movie Review: Inferno

When The Da Vinci Code first made its way into theaters back in 2006, it was much talked about. Author Dan Brown had written a book that introduced a fictional idea (a conspiracy, really) that quickly found its way to the masses.…

Movie Review: Hell or High Water

Dust billows in waves in David Mackenzie’s newest scorcher Hell or High Water a film that manages to captivate the second the first frame pops into frame. Equal parts heist thriller and meditations on life and what it means to…

Movie Review: ‘Warcraft’

Under my name for this review I suppose I should write “not a gamer,” because that seems to make a big difference. My limited knowledge of the game “World of Warcraft” comes primarily from South Park, admittedly an unkind portrayal of…

Cannes Report #5 (American Honey, Personal Shopper, Hell or High Water)

One thing about the Cannes film festival is that you watch so many noteworthy films that you are bound to lost track of some. Case in point David Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water (8/10) which screened as part of the…

Movie Review: ‘The Program’

The most intriguing part of Stephen Frears’ The Program, a biopic charting Armstrong’s rise and fall from grace based on Irish sports journalist David Walsh’s book Seven Deadly Sins, is that it is just as much a condemnation of cycling…

John’s Movie Review: “Lone Survivor”

There are a lot of movies that glorify being in the military. Getting the chance to fight for your country is probably the “bravest” and “manliest” thing you can do. This movie glorifies being in the military, but also asks…