WILD TALES: 6 Stories Viciously Satirizing Human Behavior

WILD TALES (Dir. Damián Szifrón, 2014) I loved IDA, and was glad it won the Best Foreign Picture Oscar, but I totally would've been coo...

The Pixies’ Frank Black Blabs About BRAZIL For Film Acoustic

As I wrote in the Raleigh N & O, the third installment of the new series Film Acoustic was a real doozy: Frank Black of the iconic punk ...

The Splendid Soviet Hockey Doc RED ARMY

Opening today in the Triangle at The Raleigh Grande : RED ARMY   (Dir. Gabe Polsky, 2014) I’m so not a sports guy, but I do enjoy a good spo...

Liam Neeson's Latest, The Run-Of-The-Mill RUN ALL NIGHT

Now playing at a multiplex near you: RUN ALL NIGHT (Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra, 2015) While watching this new crime thriller, I wondered: ‘how...

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s bleak Russian tragedy LEVIATHAN

LEVIATHAN (Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014) While the 2015 awards season is technically over, it often lingers on in the form of foreign film...