The Band's Visit

Unlike familiar narratives following the typical Hollywood plot, The Band's Visit has a more complex structure as it follows characters through different moods on one lonely night. The Band’s Visit differs from the average Hollywood flick like the difference between a dinner with a few friends and a loud party with planned activities respectively.  Read More

Street Kings

 

While watching Street Kings with a group of other men, you're likely to realize why so many action films revolve around the police in the line of duty. Watching a detective blow a  crater in a suspect's head just naturally excites the male viewer with lofty, not to mention naïve, aspirations and to testosterone-loaded exclamations. Read More

Be Kind Rewind

In Be Kind Rewind, writer/director Michel Gondry does to comedies what he did to romances with Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, dissolving the focus on cheap laughs and quick entertainment by making the lens a veritable eye, delighted to watch the quirks and development of human characters. Read More