Indie Watch: Streamer (2013)

The problem with most short films lies with ambitious, aspiring auteurs trying to cram a 90 minute feature into 9 minutes. The best short films, on the other hand, winnow down the narrative to something more manageable - a vignette, a moment, a morse...

The Critic

If you're like me and enjoy your television shows littered with movie references, particularly funny ones, then you're probably seen The Critic. Lasting only two seasons and a handful of webisodes, the show had a tightly wov...

Interview with Silvio Soldini, Director of For Other Eyes and Come Undone

Only a minute into a conversation with Silvio Soldini and you'll find yourself in awe at the depths of his thoughtfulness of the world around us. Soldini is proof that we can all find inspiration anywhere, even from the seemingly mundane routines of ...

10 Great Movie + Music Moments

There are those moments in a good movie, very fleeting, when direction, plot and music all meld to deliver a message that is such a pure hybrid that no other medium could deliver it as perfectly. Music, or absence thereof in films, is one of the most...

Italian Contemporary Film Festival 2013: Educazione Siberiana (2013)

Educazione Siberiana, directed by Italian Gabriele Salvatores, is a drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria. If by drama they mean that the plot will b...

Watch American Landmarks Be Destroyed!

Happy 4th of July, a wee little b-day celebration for the United States. And what better way to celebrate than to engage in one of Hollywood's (and Hollywood is America, no?) passtimes - blowing iconic American landmarks to smithereen! Enjoy and keep...

Top 10 Frank Capra Movies

If you asked me who my favorite auteur is, I would probably say Alfred Hitchcock. If I you asked me on a day when I was feeling particularly film snobby I might say Truffaut, of course! Or if you asked on a day when I was feeling particularly obtuse,...