May 03, 2013 Cinema Web Exclusive

Rare is the film that strives for rhapsodic innovation and achieves it without fail, but Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas strives for such singularity, and mostly achieves it, in his newest effort Post Tenebras Lux (After Darkness, Light). More

Apr 26, 2013 Cinema Web Exclusive

Love is the ostensible subject of Ulrich Seidl's first installment in a trilogy about contemporary paradisal pursuits, Paradise: Love. More

Apr 25, 2013 Cinema Issue #45 - Winter 2013 - Phoenix

Sun Don't Shine, Amy Seimetz's debut feature as writer/director, is an often discomfiting yet gorgeously impressionistic film. Beginning with a roadside fight between couple Leo (Kentucker Audley) and Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil), the template is established. Intimations are cryptic and exposition is spare, but the destination for the couple is a dark one, foreshadowed as Leo reveals to Crystal that on their trip to the Everglades, "We've got to take a route that don't make sense."

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Apr 18, 2013 Cinema Web Exclusive

Terrence Malick's To The Wonder is the story of Neil and Marina, played by Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko, two strangers who meet and fall in love while Neil is on a trip to France. They have a romance, it sours, Marina moves back to France and eventually Neil goes back to France to try and get her back. Apologies for the spoilers, but the events of the story aren't really of consequence in this film, and that's to its detriment. More

Apr 18, 2013 Cinema Web Exclusive

Henry Alex Rubin's Disconnect has a lot to say about the way our society connects with one another in this digital age. While there's none of it that hasn't been said before, the film pulls it off with committed performances from its actors. More

Apr 04, 2013 Cinema Issue #45 - Winter 2013 - Phoenix

“Art shouldn't offer answers, only questions,” filmmaker Michael Haneke stated in a recent interview. Not exactly a surprising declaration from a provocateur of his stature, but it is an imperative that modern cinema largely lacks. Shane Carruth, however, is the embodiment of Haneke’s edict. More

Mar 29, 2013 Cinema Issue #45 - Winter 2013 - Phoenix

Derek Cianfrance's (Blue Valentine) second feature is a sweeping, far-fetched drama set in the seedy underbelly of Schenectady, NY: a place surprisingly packed with dirty cops, dirty politicians, and dirty carnies. More

Mar 29, 2013 Cinema Issue #45 - Winter 2013 - Phoenix

Eyebrows understandably furled when boundary-subverting director Harmony Korine announced that his newest feature, Spring Breakers, would star bubblegum Disney princesses Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez.  More

Mar 28, 2013 Cinema Issue #45 - Winter 2013 - Phoenix

Rodney Ascher's somewhat experimental documentary-investigation into Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is at its least an original presentation of some extremely unique theories. More