Is anyone out there game for having their senses assaulted by a silent film?  I know this sounds oxymoronic, but Guy Maddin’s 2006 offering, Brand upon the Brain is just the film for you.  Maddin continues his silent cinema “autobiography,” logically following the existential path macheted by his...

Modern movie horror comes in in many forms.  The Japanese inspired The Ring and The Grudge seem to go for scares but lack plotlines that make sense.  The Saw and Hostel movies relish in human carnage.  Even teen slasher films such as Halloween and Friday the 13th are getting modern makeovers. ...

I’ve liked Kevin Smith ever since I saw the “If you plan to shoplift please let us know” sign taped up in a friend’s room in high school. The sign was from the movie Clerks, a 1994 independent film that was shot for less than thirty thousand dollars in the convenience store where Kevin Smith...

In Irina Palm, legendary singer Marianne Faithfull plays Maggie, a frumpy, mousy, overweight, middle-aged widow living in a depressing London suburb on the fixed income of her deceased husband’s pension.  Her young grandson is terminally ill and the family cannot afford his medical treatments;...

Joyeux Noel is an extradinary movie that portrays the Christmas Truce that took place on the Western Front during World War I. While there were several incidents along the entire front, the focus of this film is on one particular area which contained soldiers from Germany, Scotland, and...