Review: Luhrmann's 'Great Gatsby' Tramples The Novel's Intentions
May 12th, 2013 9:26am EDT
Baz Luhrmann’s bombastic big screen adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” is like drinking cheap booze to excess. It’s unpleasant going down, and even worse coming back up, but when the experience is o...
Tony Stark Gets A Much-Needed Dose Of Humility In ‘Iron Man 3’
May 5th, 2013 7:40am EDT
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) figures out how to play nice with others in “The Avengers,” but our smug, self-assured hero finally learns humility in Shane Black’s “Iron Man 3.” For the first tim...
IFFBoston Review: 'Willow Creek'
May 3rd, 2013 7:48am EDT
It’s fairly safe to say, that few filmmakers would attempt to shoot a found footage movie like Bobcat Goldthwait’s “Willow Creek.” There aren’t many writer/directors who could make an absurd combin...
IFFBoston Review: ‘V/H/S/2’
May 1st, 2013 10:00pm EDT
When the creators of last year’s wicked horror anthology “V/H/S” sat down to make a sequel, it seems like they were reading from an audience suggestion box. That’s because “V/H/S/2” addresses many ...
IFFBoston Review: Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing'
April 30th, 2013 7:41am EDT
Shakespeare has never been as accessible on the big screen as he is in Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” Sure, there have been plenty of modern Shakespearean film adaptations, but they often ...
