The famed and oft-imitated cabaret Crazy Horse is not your average strip club. While it may lack the tears and bruises of director Fredrick Wiseman’s other chosen locales, it’s no exception to his legacy of documentaries about places with sharp human poignancy. Continue reading
Carnage is truly the name of the game in Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the French play. And what a fun game it is. You heard me, Apples to Apples. Continue reading
Spike Lee protégé Dee Rees’ first feature about a tortured young closet lesbian is everything a character study should be: ingenious, strongly committed, and deeply personal. Plus it features Brooklyn’s sleaziest all-girls strip club, which I’m going to sneak into next weekend. Continue reading
Werner Herzog’s latest documentary examines the devastating aftermath of a triple homicide that took place on October 24th, 2001, in Montgomery, Texas. And no, smart ass, a chainsaw was NOT involved. Continue reading
We don’t want to sound bitter or nothing, but gee, it sure would have been nice to have been a child prodigy. Continue reading
Being young and on the verge of marriage, commitment, and family has always been a somewhat terrifying prospect, and perhaps now more than ever. The power of The Future, then, lies in its visionary depiction of the nearly debilitated receiving end of all that gloom. Continue reading
Joyce McKinney, the star of Errol Morris’ extravagantly entertaining documentary Tabloid, may be a lot of things—manipulative, delusional, “barking mad” as one very British tabloid reporter puts it—but even the most cynical of observers couldn’t deny that the woman’s got heart. Continue reading
Here are some more cinematic underdogs on their way to Boston’s finest movie houses. You hear that Transformers 3? I said, SICK EM. Continue reading
The accomplished, brilliantly curious American documentarian Errol Morris (“Thin Blue Line,” “The Gates of Heaven,” ‘The Fog of War”) chats with the Dig about “Tabloid,” his latest film. Continue reading
Who doesn’t love an underdog movie? In this poignant and moving new doc, a Big Oil company blows up mountains in West Virginia, and a tiny town in the valley fights back.
Similar to the films of Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), Ayoade has created a fast-paced, quick-witted cinematic world that is so soaked in humor it’s almost surreal. Continue reading
Yes, things have been pretty mild outside recently, but soon enough that big yellow bastard in the sky’ll be frying eggs all over your pasty New England ass. “But where can we turn?” you ask, hands trembling, tears starting to bubble in your eyes. There there, troubled citizen, look no further than your local movie house! Continue reading
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