Famed German director Fritz Lang’s first talkie, M, is a meditative examination of the criminal mind and how society reacts to it as the filmmaker unabashedly presents the subconscious acknowledgement of a nation facing the upcoming social upheaval at the hands of the...
“Monty Python’s Life of Brian” handled a topic that many considered to be blasphemy and the film worked so well because their brand of humor is hysterical. The movie simply ends with a musical number on the crucifix to the Eric Idle tune...
When most people hear the name Jim Carrey they think of all the comedy films he’s been in. The number of Golden Globe awards as well as nominations he has received for his performances in comedies has been unbelievable. However as of late Carrey has been in a...
Michael Ferris Gibson’s Numb is a thinking-person’s sci-fi film that is, at turns, insightful and chillingly honest in its proposal of humanity’s potential future while, at others, as soporifically languid as most of his secondary cast of addicts. In short, Numb...
I normally get scared when a short film hits my desk. Because it either means that it’s a low budget film or it’s a really bad student film. Most of the time I get bad student films, and maybe about twenty five percent of the shorts that have passed though...
