The Virgin Spring is Ingmar Bergman’s undervalued, visually arresting masterpiece from 1960. To what extent is it under appreciated? Despite winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Bergman himself always downplayed the...
As Marvel Studios begins their big push to the 2012 release of The Avengers, their films are increasingly taking on more of a soap-opera-like continuity between them. This serialization might be a little aggravating,...
The central theme to four of these five selections is that they’re about people at a point in their lives where the only certainty is that they are not willing to remain as they...
I use Flickchart every day because I don’t know myself. At the risk of impelling everyone to immediately stop reading by beginning a sentence with the phrase “back in college”, back in college I...
In This Corner… Mischief is afoot, and only one man is capable of cracking the case. Since Sherlock Holmes’ first appearance in 1887, he has captured the imaginations of writers, directors, and audiences alike....
In This Corner… Can man create his own reality? Is the reality we know reality at all? Can artificial intelligence take on a life of its own, and if so, should that life be...
In This Corner Indiana Jones, meet Jules Winnfield. One of them fights Nazis. The other takes out the garbage for kingpin Marsellus Wallace. One of them cracks a whip, while the other is known...
In This Corner… If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, you know who to call. But what if you find yourself 30 years in the past, and your neighborhood doesn’t exist at all? Who...
The first thing you need to know, is that you must see this film. Audiences are getting smarter, and Matt Reeves (Director) and J.J. Abrams (Producer) know it for a fact. Abrams has been...
