It'll be interesting to see how Sofia Coppola's new film, The Bling Ring, is viewed in a decade. The true events of the film -- a group of teens easily trespassing and stealing from celebrities that took place over a ten-month period in 2009 to 2010 -- already feels a...

24 years after his debut film Sex, Lies, and Videotape won the Palme d'Or, Steven Soderbergh might be the most buzzed about director at the moment.

He's either retiring from features or taking a hiatus (but stop asking). He recently gave a scathing, pull-quote worthy

Lance Bangs spent his youth making music videos for bands such as Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Belle & Sebastian and The Shins, and, among other camera jobs, lensing episodes of Jackass.

In a way, Bangs' has been documenting youth for two decades, but never...

When I first started writing film reviews for The Huffington Post the editors put a "warning" under the headline of my first few reviews, saying that they contained possible "spoilers" of plot points. I have since tried shift my writing to avoid that tag.

It's tricky to talk about...

In Stand by Me a group of boys come of age after an adventure to find a dead body, in Super 8 they come of age after they accidentally film a train wreck, in Mud -- the new film by Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Shotgun Stories) -- two boys find...

Last November for the AFI Film Festival, I interviewed Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon about their new documentary film, The Central Park Five, which begins airing on PBS this month.

The film concerns five black teenagers who, not knowing their rights during detainment, were coerced...

Recently, a friend of mine in Tennessee, who is applying for a film school program in North Carolina, started an online film discussion group. Inevitably, one of the first questions posed was "Who are your favorite directors" and inevitably there were ardent Terrence Malick fans and detractors. Film critic J....

Danny Boyle's last endeavor was producing the opening night festivities for London's Olympiad. Much like the five rings of the Olympic Games symbol, his newest film, Trance, finds the director coming full circle. He's reunited with John Hodge, the screenwriter of his first four feature films (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A...

Harmony Korine's first film, 1995's Kids, (he wrote the script at age of 19, and it was directed by photographer Larry Clark) has a famous review blurb from the New York Times plastered on all its posters, and home videos proclaiming that the film is "a wake up...

This year marks the English language debut of three exciting, distinctly different South Korean filmmakers: Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Mother), Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) and Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters, I Saw the Devil).

Chile's Oscar nominated film No does not look good -- but that is just one part of its resounding success. Equal parts in humor, suspense and joy, No is a triumph.

There is an abundance of craft from director Pablo Larraín on display in No. Despite what may appear to...

As awards begin to be handed out rewarding the films released in 2012 you'll start to hear that 2012 was a sweeping return to form for the studio prestige picture. While studios did have a stellar year (in comparison to years past of this decade, Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty,...

Holy Motors is many things, but mostly it is a dream.

Leos Carax's new film is a series of scenarios with Denis Lavant playing a different character every time he steps out of a limousine -- entering into varied fantasies and, perhaps, some realities.

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln takes on the last four months of the 16th president's life -- and it is nothing like you'd expect. Save the opening images of a Civil War battle, this is a political procedural where an ensemble cast carries equal importance to Abraham Lincoln himself.

Lincoln (Daniel...

The 26th Annual AFI Film Festival ended in Hollywood on November 9. Ninety-two feature-length films were screened at the festival (including a surprise screening of Skyfall, which was not originally part of the program).

In addition to the red carpet galas, and special screenings of...

Ginger and Rosa begins with an image of the spreading mushroom cloud detonation over Hiroshima in 1945. It ends with a confined familial implosion in 1962 London. The 17 years in between both situations are the ages of Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert); both were born on the...

To not damn the film with faint praise, The Sapphires is a crowd-pleaser, a light and safe film. It features a charming performance by Chris O'Dowd (Kristen Wiig's romantic partner in Bridesmaids, and current staple of the Judd Apatow film and television world) and great musical numbers. But it also...

When Laurence Anyways debuted at this year's Cannes Film Festival, director Xavier Dolan was only 23 years old, already with two Cannes debuts under his belt.


In this new film, a character opens his mouth and reveals a butterfly, which is, of course, fitting for a...

Jacques Audiard's last film, A Prophet, was one of the best films of the last decade, and could be described as The Godfather of prison films. For his follow-up, Audiard more closely follows the coda of his first internationally distributed film: The Beat My Heart Skipped, a somber film with...

Two films showed in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year involving a man going on a long, one-day journey with multiple stops and exits from his stretch limousine. David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis was concerned with societal upheaval; Leos Carax's Holy Motors is concerned with whether people are still engaged...