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Tower Heist
Everyone's excited for the new Brett Ratner movie, right? Jonesing for another marginal action-comedy in the vein of Rush Hour 2? You're in luck! Tower Heist fits the bill, and despite its allusions...
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The Descendants
Alexander Payne paints a different picture of Hawaii. In the opening montage of his new film The Descendants, the director not so gently reminds us that the island "paradise," with its...
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Hugo
Who's the audience for Hugo? With roots in the fantasy/adventure genres and a comfortable color palette for the Harry Potter and Twilight crowds, "preteen" seems a safe bet. But it undergoes a...
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Shame
Sex without the pleasure — and you thought starving to death in an Irish prison was rough. Following Hunger, director Steve McQueen's new collaboration with Michael Fassbender is a similarly...
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New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve (The Film) Drops The BallAs a sometimes film critic for TimesSquare.com I really wanted to love this film and give it a "four-star" review. After all, most of the film's action takes...
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Haywire
Haywire is a lot like last year's Drive. What both lack in substance, they make up for in style. Likewise, both could be dismissed as pulp dreck if their respective directors hadn't classed up the...
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The Grey
So it's come to this: Liam Neeson, a pack of wolves, and a filmmaker with delusions of grandeur. The Grey might have passed as merely a second-rate survival flick had it laid off the...
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The Woman In Black
Recipe for a Hollywood horror flick: pick a screenplay with a vaguely creepy-sounding title like The Woman in Black. Be sure the writer included one or all of the following: portraits with the eyes...
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Hunger Games
Superfans be easy. If your barometer for measuring the success of Hollywood's Hunger Games adaptation begins and ends with faithfulness to the source material, by all accounts it is one. If you can...
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The Central Park 5
The Central Park 5 Featuring: Raymond Santana & Sarah BurnsInterviewer: Lorenzo TartamellaCamera: Joey FrancoSpecial Thanks: Danny Payne, Montreal International Black Film Festival Acclaimed...
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Tribeca Film Festival – MöBIUS
Eric Rochant's Mobius "is a love story inside a spy movie" set Monaco, Brussels and Moscow. Undercover Russian FSB officer Gregory Lioubov (Jean Dujardin , Academy award winner, The Artist) with Alice...
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