NYAFF Review: The Bullet Vanishes
There’s an observation in This Is Spinal Tap that sums up the dilemma of many detective stories: there’s a fine line between clever ...
Tag: Period Piece
Trailers
Trailer: Inside Llewyn Davis (Red Band)
Here’s a new red band trailer for the Coen Brothers’s Inside Llewyn Davis, and it’s pretty similar to the previous trailer for Inside ...
Reviews
Review: Something in the Air
Confession time: the only Olivier Assayas movie I’d seen prior to Something in the Air was Irma Vep starring Maggie Cheung, which I ...
Details on Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom was our pick for the best comedy of 2012. Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is another period ...
Reviews
Review: Blancanieves
Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves will inevitably draw comparisons to Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist since both are silent films. (Blancanieves was Spain’s official Oscar entry ...
Featurette: Gangster Squad
I feel like I’ve been waiting for this movie since I saw Drive last year and now it’s almost finally here! This brief ...
Trailers
Trailer: The Assassins
There’s a certain kind of sumptuousness to Chinese period epics, like John Woo’s Red Cliff or the films of Chen Kaige. Zhao Yiyang’s ...
Big ensemble cast for Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel
The cast for Wes Anderson’s new film is set, and it’s one hell of an ensemble. (Johnny Depp is not involved with the ...
Trailers
Trailer: Drift
As much as I hate to say it, Sam Worthington is “that guy” of the movie industry. He’s starred in huge blockbusters (Avatar, ...
Reviews
Review: Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino and his style of filmmaking really don’t need an introduction. With a directorial career spanning over two decades and eight films ...
Review: Lincoln
Depicting another person’s life has to be one of the most daunting jobs to take in Hollywood. Considering the protagonist of Steven Spielberg’s ...
Thomas Vinterberg to adapt Far From The Madding Crowd
Period dramas are ten a penny these days, as someone from a period drama might say, so you need a writer or director ...