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Gus Van Sant’s latest film, Paranoid Park, tells the story of Portland skater kid named Alex who is somehow involved in the accidental death of a rail yard employee. Van Sant adapted the screenplay from a young adult novel, which leads to an interesting fusion of Van Sant’s recent minimalist masterpieces with a more […]

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If you stop and think about it for a second, Werner Herzog and Antarctica are a strong fit. Both are complex, aloof and mysterious, isolated by their stark individuality and near-mythological auras. They’re vast and unknowable. So, in retrospect, it was probably only a matter of time before the enigmatic, contemplative director of would find […]

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The first thing that comes to mind when I think about the Newberry winning childhood classic, The Giver, is the controversy it engendered.

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Roman Polanski has always been a fragmented persona in the sense that there’s always seemed to be more than one of him.  There’s Polanski the survivor, the man who lived through the Holocaust and the brutal murder of his beautiful wife, Sharon Tate, and their unborn child.  There’s Polanksi the pedophile, the disturbed sexual predator […]

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Almost every film released these days seems to come prefaced by months of hype, excessive product placements and tie-ins, and expectations that few films can hope to live up to. But every so often, a small little film will bubble up through the surface and manage to satisfy filmgoers in a way that most of […]

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