Richard Kelly’s audacious Donnie Darko burst into our collective culture at the beginning of the 2000s. Its subject matter was eerily congruent with our own seemingly apocalyptic times. Yet after garnering critical and financial goodwill, not to mention muscling into the Hot Topic market, Kelly went into a period of inactivity that seemed to border on…Read more Film Review: Southland Tales (2008)
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Film Review: The Dark Knight Returns – Part II (2012)
Inconsistent yet still undeniably entertaining, the second part of Warner Brothers' The Dark Knight Returns (DKR) adaptation is a big film that wrestles admirably with its complex source material. “He can fly!” exclaims an awestruck cop (while observing a temporarily aerial Batman) during one of the film’s many well-done action sequences. The same thing can occasionally…Read more Film Review: The Dark Knight Returns – Part II (2012)
Film Review: Shame (2011)
After capturing the gruesome implications of the 1981 IRA hunger strike in his breakout 2008 film Hunger, Steve R. McQueen shifted gears with 2011's Shame. Like Hunger, Shame stars the now seemingly omnipresent Michael Fassbender in a performance so intense that it threatens to blow everything else off the screen. The film concerns itself with the story…Read more Film Review: Shame (2011)
Film Review: Fearless (1993)
Emerging from the battered remnants of a destroyed corn-field, leading a flock of shell-shocked survivors, Jeff Bridges' Max Klein immediately establishes the tone of intriguing ambiguity that comes to define Peter Weir's brilliant 1993 film Fearless. One of the few physically unscathed survivors from a truly horrific plane crash, Bridges’ Klein leaves the carnage with…Read more Film Review: Fearless (1993)
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