Toronto-bound Hoop Dreams director Steve James talks about his award-winning documentary style and also his new film Life Itself, a doc about late Chicago critic Roger Ebert.comments
Muppets Most Wanted is a bit of a mess. But Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy and their human pals all get to business, confident that audience goodwill will see them through — and it often does.comments
Robots aren’t our friends, people. As the movies have long taught us, machines always require humans to keep a close and skeptical eye on them.comments
Sold as a randy celebrity sex romp, Lars von Trier’s epic two-parter Nymphomaniac actually has something serious to say about how women are viewed and treated in a male-dominated world.comments
Down River by Vancouver filmmaker Ben Ratner is an intelligent, mature and reasonably successful look at the lives and travails of three young women and the den mother who guides them. comments
Veteran British actors Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as an aging couple trying to rescue their failing marriage make a sublime and satisfying reflection on love and aging.comments
Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul, who stars in street race movie Need for Speed, and director Scott Waugh talk about bringing the video game to the big screen.comments
Denis Villeneuve’s award-winning psychosexual thriller Enemy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man haunted by his doppelgänger, lodges into the corner of the brain where we hide fears that we don’t understand. comments
