my film journal

This powerful Danish drama stars Mads Mikkelsen ( A Royal Affair ) as Lucas, a divorced father, who becomes the target of a close-knit co...

When two children go missing on the outskirts of a suburban community, a mysterious RV camper parked on the street is immediately suspect...

It’s not surprising that in the shantytowns outside Johannesburg, most cops have gone corrupt. Soweto is a land of lawlessness, where eve...

How do you make a family drama into a psychological thriller and make it work? Well, Dutch director Menno Meyjes has done it. This is a...

In this genuine moving film we follow new mother Erika (Alicia Vikander), who also appeared in A Royal Affair (2012), as she goes throug...

The riveting passionate films of Fatih Akin, the German-Turkish director of such powerful cinematic works as Head-On (2003), Crossing ...

Inspired by the real life story of Eugene Allen, who worked at the White House as a butler for 34 years during eight presidencies, The Bu...

In the year 2154 overpopulation and pollution have ravaged the earth and rendered it virtually uninhabitable, making it necessary to buil...

An Egyptian traveling ceremonial police band, scheduled to play at an Arab cultural center in Israel, take a bus into a small sleepy de...

Wine, olives, fish and olive oil, Adriatico My Love is a charming romantic culinary comedy and sentimental journey back to a quaint Med...

No, this is not a new Transformers sequel. But it does feature loud titanic smackdowns, in the kaiju tradition, between mammoth ...

Not your average love story, this is romance Hong Kong style. During a hot humid summer in 1962, the bustling Shanghainese community prov...

Zombies, long a cult favorite, have finally made the leap into mainstream cinema. Not being a fan of horror films, I have mostly avoided ...

Olé! A silent fairy tale that trumps any loud summer blockbuster with its seductive beauty and emotional storyline, this inspired marvel...

Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the classic American novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald bursts at the seams with a highly stylize...

What could the latest from DreamWorks animation, The Croods (2013), possibly have in common with Kon-Tiki (2012), a Norwegian historical ...