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Attempting to visualize the colorful inner workings of the human imagination is always a daunting task in cinema. Sometimes, it works, as in the stunning emotional beauty of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Other times, it comes off as uninspired and contrived. Unfortunately, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
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The creative metamorphosis of director David O. Russell is nothing short of revelatory; after a mild stream of success with films such as “Three Kings” and the critically snubbed but publicly lauded “I Heart Huckabees,” Russell took a near seven-year hiatus. He returned in 2010 with a prolific fervor and
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It has been almost 10 years since America’s favorite broadcast journalists graced the silver screen with their lovably moronic presence. Luckily for fans of the Channel 4 News Team, Ron Burgundy and the gang are back in theaters with “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.” The sequel packs in even more
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Due to the sheer number of film festivals around the world, some naysayers would argue we need another one as much as we need another hole in the head. Here to dispel this notion is the San Francisco Indie Fest’s line up of horror and sci-fi films, aptly titled, you
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Honorable Mentions: Pacific Rim Sick of the “Transformers” franchise destroying your love of giant robot battles? Guillermo Del Toro’s most recent addition to his canon of fantastical, horrific and wonderful films is the jaw-dropping spectacle “Pacific Rim.” A love letter to kaiju (Japanese monster) and giant robot films, this movie
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Director David O. Russell describes making a film as placental amnesia — the phenomenon of women forgetting how horrific childbirth is in order to allow themselves to do it again. “Making certain films,” Russell said Tuesday night in a live Q&A hosted by the New York Film Critics Series at Elmwood’s
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Art will always be an anthem against the status quo — it sparks an observer to want know more. In a world that is increasingly overrun with stimulation, art is a prism to make everything a little bit smaller. “It’s slowing the pace down,” said Kim Anno. “Art is really
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The rolling Appalachian hills of Pennsylvania are brimming with the violent, brutal secrets of a darker thread of life running beneath the surface. Beneath a black sky, a film plays within a film while a man with a pearl earring forces a hot dog down the throat of a woman
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Jennifer Lee, screenwriter for “Wreck-It Ralph,” has become the first woman in more than 76 years and 50 animated films to direct a Disney animated feature. Her appointment was met with great fanfare, and she hasn’t disappointed — “Frozen” is Disney’s best film since “The Princess and the Frog.” Disney’s
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For a television show to be able to last for 50 years — and a science fiction show at that — there has to be something special to it, something that allows it to change and evolve as the decades pass and popular culture ebbs and flows through space-time, wibbly-wobbly
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