Django Unchained: Tarantino’s Western as TV Mini-Series

Tarantino told an audience at the Cannes Film Festival that he’d like to release a four-hour miniseries of his hit spaghetti Western, “Django Unchained.” The 2012 picture earned him a second Oscar for best original screenplay, and Christoph Waltz received a Supporting Actor Oscar for it.. “My idea is to cut together a four-hour version […]

Wild Tales (2014): Szifron’s Outrageously Funny Comedy

Wild Tales, the compendium of wildly outrageous stories by Argentinean filmmaker Damian Szifron, lives up to its title in delivering a series of unrelated tales, loosely unified by the motif of revenge.

Welcome to New York (2014): Ferrara’s Account of Strauss-Kahn Scandal, Starring Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset

Welcome to New York, Ferrara’s account of Strauss-Kahn scandal, starring Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset, played to a packed house on Carlton Beach Friday night.

Foxcatcher: Interview with Director Bennett Miller

Bennett Miller is presenting his new film, Foxcatcher, in competition at the Cannes Film Fest. The movie stars Steve Carell as eccentric American millionaire John du Pont, whose obsession with sponsoring Olympic wrestling hopefuls led to murder. Following his first features, 2005’s Capote and 2011’s Moneyball, both well-received and Oscar-nominated, Miller is telling another intriguing […]

How to Train Dragon 2

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, based on the children’s book series by Cressida Cowell, was such a huge success that it was only a matter of time before a sequel got made. In the second chapter of the epic trilogy, five years have passed since the heroic young Viking Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) befriended an injured […]