Jesus People review: Christian pop takes the softest of smacks
This too gentle mockumentary barely even takes aim at its easiest potential targets, but the appealing cast is game and manages a few cogent hits.
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La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus review: get on the bus
Follow a humble yellow school bus as it is transformed into something joyous and defiant. It’s like discovering that your grandma is a secret agent.
Best Friends Forever review: the end of the world as women see it
Smartly stylish, refracting familiar fictional events and themes through a little-used cinematic prism: that of women’s perspectives.
A Woman Like That (review)
Forget movies about art as you’ve seen them before. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod takes a compellingly intimate tack in her look at the convention-busting 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi, creating an extraordinary synthesis that is part art appreciation, part personal diary…
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (review)
As critic turned filmmaker Gerald Peary’s documentary demonstrates, the field has been chock full of personality clashes, political posturing, conflicts of interest, and damned opinionated voices since forever.
Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1 (review)
Gruesomely agreeable twists on standard vampire motifs abound in this elegantly ambitious film…
The Hunt for Gollum (review)
This is a beautiful little fan film: it’s fan fiction to the Nth degree…
Sita Sings the Blues (review)
How does heartbreak become art? Just like this.
The Eyes of Van Gogh (review)
Few ultra-low-budget films take on such an ambitious story, or tell it in such an ambitious way…
42 Story House (review)
Countless filmmakers are making a go of it without the involvement in any way of the corporate studios: not for financing, not for production, not for distribution. Here’s one of those superindie films. Hollywood scriptwriter Todd W. Langen stepped outside his creative comfort zone and set himself a filmmaking challenge: one year, one house, one … more…
