The Outsider

Rafael Abrahams

Undernourished Diversions [Perspectives on The Hunger Games ]: Part 1.

The Novice

Eliot Linton

Undernourshied Diversions [Perspectives on The Hunger Games ]: Part 2.

The Expert

Filipa Ioannou

Undernourished Diversions [Perspectives on The Hunger Games ]: Part 3.

Should We Bomb Iran?

Dayton Martindale

Not if they keep making movies like A Separation.

New Year's Eve

Jessica Welsh

A dark horse in the race for the Oscars.

Oscar Noms

Tom Markham

Musings and predictions.

Frog Meets Pig

Will Mantell

A review of the Muppets movie.

Snakes, Planes, and History

David Drew

A film that's more than its catch phrase.

Love or Nothing

Zack Newick

Shakespeare asks the big questions and sometimes he answers them. In Romeo and Juliet he asks about love, often.

Meetin' WA

John Tamplin

As often as my pocketbook and homework allow, I go to New York City to the movies. I come from Kentucky, a place that neither can nor does sate my appetite for cinema. There are no festivals, no repertory theatres, no arthouses; there are only blockbusters, and great movies can ...

Tiny Audience

John Tamplin

Lena Dunham, a 23-year-old filmmaker from New York who has a degree in film studies from Oberlin, plays Aura, a 22-year-old Oberlin grad with a “useless” film studies degree, in Lena Dunham’s first feature as a director, Tiny Furniture, written by: Lena Dunham.

Mucking Zuckerberg

Molly Bolten

At 10:55 p.m. on a Sunday night, I am obsessively checking my Facebook. After clearing my notification (singular notification, because it has only been about ten minutes since I last checked it. Okay, it’s been two minutes. Judge me.) and RSVP-ing “maybe” to the event I’m ...

The Movies, Today

Dan Abromowitz

RED (Link)

Finally tapping into the coveted “Action Movie-Goers Ages 55-64” demographic is RED, the first movie to fully recognize that the bad-ass old guy is the most bad-ass bad-ass possible. For that matter, I think I am not exaggerating when I say that, by and large, the older the practitioner, the more raw the feat. I dare you to name one thing that’s not raw as hell when done by a dude or lady of years. Doing push-ups. Chopping firewood. Yelling at Koreans. Speaking to a nation. Chugging a beer.

America from Afar

Zack Newick

Roman Polanski has lived one of the most fascinating lives of the last century, though it would be hard to call it “good.” Such a title ought to be reserved for more pleasant, straightforward existences that perhaps begin modestly and end with a substantial list of quality works and a ...