“Fill the Void” Is Full of Life and Devoid of Cliché

Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein, 2012) A fascinating look at love and marriage politics within the Hasidic community of Tel … More

There Be Monsters out There: “World War Z,” “Monsters University,” and Their Differing Pleasures

O Lucky Viewer! O Lucky Monster Fan! Today you get to choose from two new films – or see them … More

[NOTE: Missed the show? Check out the podcast!] On Friday, June 28, I, Christopher Llewellyn Reed – Chair of Film/Video … More

This past Sunday, I presented the soon-to-be-released film The Spectacular Now – adapted from Tim Tharp’s 2008 book of the same … More

Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013) I was 26 when I saw Before Sunrise, in 1995, just a few years older than … More

Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013) The creators of the new Superman origin film, Man of Steel, managed to make one … More

This is the End (Evan Goldberg/Seth Rogen, 2013) Oh, what fun I had for the first thirty minutes of this … More

Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012) “When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, … More

We live in a world of wonders, where all of the problems that plagued humanity from the dawn of time … More

After Earth (M. Night Shyamalan, 2013) This is such a piece of crap or, to put it in polite language, … More