True Detective Episode 2.8 Recap
If you went into this season of True Detective expecting a satisfying conclusion to a complex mystery then you were watching it wrong
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True Detective Episode 2.7 Recap
True Detective shows us the protective power of love in an action packed penultimate episode.
True Detective Episode 2.6 Recap
“Church in Ruins” isn't going to change the minds of viewers who have turned to hate-watching True Detective but lovers of Nic Pizzolatto’s brand of nihilism porn will find it exhilarating.
True Detective Episode 2.5 Recap
Ray Velcoro is set on a heroic path in the face of overwhelming darkness in "Other Lives."
True Detective Episode 2.4 Recap
We live in a chaotic world in which bad things happen for absolutely no coherent reason. The fourth hour of True Detective season two, “Down Will Come,” is remarkable in illustrating this concept.
True Detective Episode 2.3 Recap
"Maybe Tomorrow" is all about the many masks we wear — and the violence of removing them.
True Detective Episode 2.2 Recap
Hard boiled pulp collides with abject horror and True Detective hits its stride in the shocking "Night Finds You".
True Detective Episode 2.1 Recap
In True Detective's difficult second season you'll have to be your own Rustin Cohle.
Horns Review
Overlong and overstuffed (but with a great Daniel Radcliffe performance), Horns is a great one hour short dragged to two hours.
Rendezvous With Madness 2013: Winter in the Blood Review
Winter in the Blood Virgil First Raise (Chaske Spencer) wakes up in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana, hungover and badly beaten. He returns to his ranch on the reservation to find that his wife, Agnes (Julia Jones), has left him. Worse, she’s taken his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to town find […]
TIFF 2013: McCanick Review
McCanick Contemporary World Cinema Director: Josh C. Waller To say that the corrupt cop drama is overdone might be an understatement, which makes the fact that Josh C. Waller’s McCanick works as well as it does quite the achievement. Eugene “Mack” McCanick is not a cop who plays by the rules, but as the film […]
The Odd Life of Timothy Green Review
The Odd Life of Timothy Green is an odd duck of a film that’s trying so desperately to be inspirational that it turns out to be cheesy at best and downright creepy and off putting and worst.
Collaborator Review
Actor Martin Donovan's directorial debut Collaborator is a subtle, desperately dry dark comedy with thriller elements, a surprising amount of insight, and entertainment borne out of trapping two unique characters in a room together and watching them talk.
Interview: Martin Donovan
We caught up with famed character actor turned first time feature director Martin Donovan about his filmmaking debut Collaborator, how his life and previous work led to this point, and why comedy never works unless you play it straight.
