By Rebecca Pahle on May 24, 2012
Director Dan Beers’ moviemaking success story began with his short film FCU: Fact Checkers Unit, which premiered at Sundance in 2008. The...
By Rebecca Pahle on May 24, 2012
Director Matthew Mishory’s debut feature, Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, is a visually stunning, meditative film steeped in the...
By Rebecca Pahle on May 23, 2012
The original Men in Black, released in 1997, was a pitch-perfect combination of action, comedy and sci-fi trappings, and audiences flocked to...
By Rebecca Pahle on May 21, 2012
26 years after it was filmed, Dutch director, journalist and rap aficionado Bram Van Splunteren’s Big Fun in the Big Town is...
By Rebecca Pahle on May 21, 2012
It’s three weeks of box office dominance and counting for The Avengers, which easily kept new release Battleship from the number one...
By Rebecca Pahle on May 14, 2012
The Avengers handily overpowered Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows over the weekend, becoming the top film at the box office for the second...
By Rebecca Pahle on May 11, 2012
The history Egon Schiele’s 1912 oil painting Portrait of Wally is one that seems too incredible to be true. Purchased by Jewish...
By Rebecca Pahle on May 10, 2012
A Bag of Hammers tells the story of Ben (Jason Ritter, “Parenthood”) and Alan (Jake Sandvig, Easy A), two twentysomething grifters whose...
By Rebecca Pahle on May 9, 2012
Here, director Simon Wincer (Free Willy, “Lonesome Dove”) recounts the making of his inspirational sports drama The Cup, based on the true...