WUTHER OR NOT

Nobody can take away from the newest adaptation of the cinematically well-worn Wuthering Heights that it wants for a bold idea: Andrea Arno...

THERE ARE AS MANY ADAPTATIONS OF ANNA KARENINA AS THERE ARE HEARTS

Twice now, director Joe Wright has set his sights on a masterpiece of world literature that has been adapted more times than anybody is comf...

THE MADNESS OF KING CHRISTIAN

It's tempting to accuse Danish costume extravaganza and official Oscar submission A Royal Affair of being more of the same damn thing, ...

TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING

Our long national nightmare is over: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 has come out, and brought an end to the beloved teen paranor...

DISNEY SHORT ANIMATION: IT'S ALL THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE

It's awfully special to be an animation buff who gets to be aware that the film you're watching right now is, no big deal, just one ...

PERSONAL CANON: THIS IS A STORY ABOUT LOVE

There is a very real possibility that out of the several thousand movies I've watched in my life, most of them in the twelve years since...

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

If I may steal from Tolstoy: competently-made movies are all alike, ambitiously messy movies are all ambitiously messy in their own way. Whi...

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '12: AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY (TERENCE NANCE, USA)

Screens at CIFF: 10/21 & 10/22 & 10/23 World premiere: 21 January, 2012, Sundance Film Festival There are movies that are perfect, o...

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '12: SOMETHING IN THE AIR (OLIVIER ASSAYAS, FRANCE)

Screens at CIFF: 10/14 & 10/17 & 10/18 World premiere: 3 September, 2012, Venice Film Festival The original French title of the film...

HORROR BY LEWTON: THERE IS NO BEAUTY HERE, ONLY DEATH AND DECAY

If we're going to make any sense of the RKO B-picture unit headed by producer Val Lewton in the 1940s, we're going to have to get on...

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '12: OUT IN THE DARK (MICHAEL MAYER, ISRAEL/USA)

Screens at CIFF: 10/13 & 10/14 & 10/21 World premiere: 7 September, 2012, Toronto International Film Festival 2011's Weekend is...

HORROR BY LEWTON: I THOUGHT I SAW A PUSSYCAT

October weekends here at Antagony & Ecstasy can mean one thing and one thing only: it's time for a classic horror retrospective. Thi...