Film Review Archives: 12/2015

In my review of Ryan Coogler’s well-received ‘Fruitvale Station’, I concluded with the following suggestion for the fledgling filmmaker: “The neophyte director has bit off…

Nightcrawler, the amazing directorial debut for writer-director Dan Gilroy, could best be described as a ‘guilty pleasure,’ in that the film’s protagonist, Lou Bloom, is far…

After his big success with ‘The Great Beauty’, Paolo Sorrentino is back with an English language version of essentially the same story. In place of…

Spotlight, the newly released film by director Thomas McCarthy, is receiving a great deal of critical acclaim, along with nominations for multiple film awards. It…

Director Tim Hooper, responsible for the excellent Oscar winner ‘The King’s Speech’, is now back with a much more obscure but fascinating historical tale, ‘The…

For this review, I’m prepared to fight above my weight class, and try to deal with a classic art film which has appeared on every…

If you’ve already seen The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning film loosely based on the Whitey Bulger story or the excellent documentary by Joe Berlinger,…