This is more of a pointer to Barb's great review of The Human Condition: I was going to write a mini-review of the movie(s) too, then realized that the act of writing was probably going to be just as exhausting, ...Read More
It isn't often that you hear the words "tender" about a horror film and not have it refer to the consistency of human flesh, but the Swedish film Let The Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), directed by ...Read More
At its core, Wendy and Lucy is simply the story of a woman and her dog. The film doesn't expand much further beyond that, really – it's cinematically and narratively pared down to the bone as it is – but ...Read More
Let me get this little thing out of the way first: see it in 3-D.Yes, it's worth the higher price for the glasses and waiting in long lines because, no pun intended, it really does add an extra dimension to ...Read More
The 27th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival schedule is finally out! But a quick Filipino film-related aside first: You can get a good heady dose of Filipino cinema the weekend of March 20, as Brillante Mendoza's Serbis is ...Read More
There's something about Kate Winslet's back, and not just because it belongs to Kate Winslet. In a pivotal scene towards the end – where the film should have ended but goes on for about five minutes too long – we ...Read More