An unsentimental tale of the seas
At 47, Director Kevin McDonald’s track record is pretty impressive: One Day in September kicked off the millennium for McDonald with an Academy Award in 2000, followed by the documentary re-enactment ...
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Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy star in St Vincent
The story of a cantankerous, chain smoking, hard drinking 60-something who becomes a mentor to a lonely, bullied young boy is a familiar premise that remains precisely that in Writer/Director Ted Melf ...
An identity crisis in The Grandmaster
When a new Wong Kar-wai film comes out, the art house crowd takes notice. Kar-Wai is the auteur of the stylishly shot, beautifully made, internationally-accessible Chungking Express, Happy Together an ...
A pretty sensational if implausible film in Eastern Boys
Joyce Glasser reviews Eastern Boys (December 5, 2014) Cert. 15, 129 min. Praise for Eastern Boys, an unpredictable home-invasion thriller set in part in the sleazy underworld of Paris’ Gare du Nord, i ...