Review: We Are the Flesh
Reviewing We Are the Flesh from writer/director Emiliano Rocha Minter is tricky. On the one hand, it’s a deeply flawed film aimed at ...
Tag: Foreign
Reviews
Review: Tampopo
Prior to this week, the last time I saw Juzo Itami’s 1985 food comedy Tampopo was in the mid-90s. I remembered so little ...
Reviews
Review: Fire at Sea
Sometimes I’ll see a movie and that makes me shake my head and say, “Okay, yeah, I get it”. These sorts of movies ...
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Review: Elle
Elle has been billed as a rape-comedy, but that’s a misnomer. It’s a comedy in the classical sense given the events of the ...
Reviews
Review: Toni Erdmann
There’s no way Toni Erdmann could ever live up to its hype. Reviews from Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival touted the ...
NYFF Review: Neruda
[This review is part of Flixist’s coverage of the 54th New York Film Festival, which runs from September 30th to ...
Trailers
The Raid’s Iko Uwais beats the hell out of jabronis in this trailer for Headshot
The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2: Berandal opened things up for director Gareth Evans and star Iwo Uwais. Uwais is back in ...
Trailers
Paul Verhoeven is back with Elle starring Isabelle Huppert, watch the trailer
Though Showgirls eventually achieved camp/cult status, it was a major strike against Paul Verhoeven’s career. He couldn’t find steady footing in Hollywood afterwards, ...
Trailers
Check out the trailer for Guardians, a Russian Avengers-style superhero epic
In the future, all movies will be superhero movies and all restaurants will be Taco Bell. Search your feelings, you know it to ...
Reviews
Review: Train to Busan
In my review of Yeon Sang-Ho’s Seoul Station from this year’s New York Asian Film Festival, I said that I felt it would have been ...
The new Godzilla Resurgence trailer is full of gravitas, pathos, and splosions
I wasn’t that much of a fan of Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla. While well-shot, the story was so-so and focused too much on ...
