Dead Man's Wire has been acquired by Row K Entertainment. Sources tell me the surprise sleeper of both Venice and...

Set in Italy, Antonio Capuano’s L’isola di Andrea (Andrea’s Island) is an imaginative and disquieting look at a family torn...

Lido is the island where the Venice Film Festival (La Biennale) is held and, for 11 madcap days, this glorious...

There have been many films made about the possibility of nuclear war, but none have ever felt quite as urgent...

This year’s Venice Film Festival World Premiered many worthwhile films, some truly wonderful, but I’ve been waiting for that one...

A gorgeous cinematic poem, Jaume Claret Muxart’s haunting, lovely coming-of-age film Strange River (Estrany Riu) centers on 16-year-old Didac (Jan...

I love it when a film appears to be moving along in a predictable fashion as a standard genre entry,...

Bernhard Wenger’s delightfully absurd film, Peacock, opens with a glaring, extended static shot of a golf cart on fire. Finally,...

As I was exiting the press screening of Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, and my eyes were still adjusting to sunlight...

Paolo Strippoli’s dark, disquieting new film, La valle dei sorrisi, has been given the English title, The Holy Boy. The...