AWFJ 2016 EDA Awards winners announced
Moonlight leads, with seven awards…
Moonlight leads, with seven awards…
Well. I’ve loved Andrea Arnold’s work so far, but I don’t know what to make of this trailer.
The bit of Bronte fever happening in the U.K. at the moment really isn’t anything new…
If you haven’t seen Fish Tank, one of the best films of 2010, now you have no excuse: there’s a new Criterion Collection edition just out, so it’s not going to get any better than this.
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
In response to something I posted recently about “the female gaze,” I got an email from a male reader who appeared to believe that “the female gaze” refers to “movies women like to watch.” It doesn’t. Not even close. But his email got my thinking that perhaps I need to explain what “the female gaze” … more…
Some viewers may be turned off by the raw fury of 15-year-old Mia, but they’re probably the ones who need to see this marvelously disturbing film most…
Slow week while everyone except me jets off to Sundance. Warner Bros. is holding The Book of Eli (opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on January 15) till Wednesday night, which doesn’t inspire great hope, but at least it is screening. It’s all about how Our Hero Denzel is carrying Viggo Mortensen’s flame … more…