How to Fold a Flag -- Film Review
"How to Fold a Flag" is always fully professional, eminently watchable, well-shot, and beautifully edited, but unfortunately, it covers a subject that is also very well-worn.
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Mao's Last Dancer -- Film Review
Veteran Australian director Bruce Beresford's new film, "Mao's Last Dancer," feels almost like a remake of the equally heart-warming "Billy Elliot," but this time around, the aspiring dancer is escaping hardline Chinese communist officials, not working-class ignorance and poverty.
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The Unloved -- Film Review
A cinema verite-type portrait of an 11-year-old girl doomed to fall through the cracks of Great Britain's problematic social services system, "The Unloved" takes a relentlessly one-note approach to its subject matter, which is probably deliberate but nonetheless monotonous.
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Blessed -- Film Review
The not always sanctified dynamic between mothers and their children is powerfully presented in "Blessed," the latest pull-no-punches drama from Australia's Ana Kokkinos.
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Trash Humpers -- Film Review
The title "Trash Humpers" comes from the film's running motif of its three principal "characters" constantly dry-humping garbage cans, trees, telephone polls, and other stationary objects.
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The Front Line -- Film Review
Italian filmmakers are obsessed about the terrorist movements that flourished in their country in the 1970s and '80s, and Renato De Maria's new film "The Front Line" is part of that trend.
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My Dog Tulip -- Film Review
"My Dog Tulip" is an adult cartoon where the attractions are a droll and very British commentary and stylish animation from the husband-and-wife team of Paul and Sandra Fierlinger.
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