Leave it to Eli Roth, the king of torture porn, to lovingly resurrect another disgusting genre — the cannibal vomitorium atrocities from the ’70s and ’80s — with his new film The Green Inferno. Those original...
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Kurt Gardner
Alamo City Film Festival – Texas film festival report
Report and film reviews from the Alamo City Film Festival by our man in Texas, Kurt Gardner: In keeping with its mission of showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, the Alamo City Film Festival brought an...
“Rififi” – Los Angeles film review
The heist movie that started an enduring trend — Rififi — is being revived. Rialto Pictures is theatrically re-releasing Jules Dassin’s seminal 50’s heist film, set on the streets of Paris. Rififi will play...
Pauline Adamek
“Tom at the Farm” – Los Angeles film review
Made in 2013, but amazingly not receiving U.S. distribution until this month, Tom at the Farm is the fourth film by Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan, who made his first film at age 20 (I Killed My Mother) and was 23...
San Antonio Film Festival Wrap-Up: An Interview with the “Moments of Clarity” Team
Festival report by Kurt Gardner. Of the many films I saw at the San Antonio Film Festival, which took place July 28th through August 2nd, a standout for me was a feature entitled Moments of Clarity, a...
