SEX IN THE HEAD

You can't always complain about how sex in movies comes in either the "prurient, puritanical, and embarrassed" flavor of the A...

THE LONG, HARD SUMMER

Of all the questions I hoped to have answered by a movie this summer, the one that's been bothering me the most, for the longest time, i...

PSYCHO KILLER, QU'EST-CE QUE C'EST?

The voting was so damn close between #1 and #2 in the poll I conducted a couple weeks ago to see what blockbuster movie I should see to fil...

100% VIRTUE AND THREE SQUARE MEALS A DAY

To a certain kind of film lover - the kind writing this film blog, for starters - the phrase "pre-Code" sparks a particular kind o...

I WILL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND

The party line on A Dangerous Method is that it is more of a period piece - and a sort of biopic to boot - than it is a David Cronenberg pi...

CONFESSIONS OF A SEX MANIAC

By this point, Michael Fassbender has become so entrenched as one of The Great Actors of His Generation that it's kind of weird to think...

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '11: SLEEPING BEAUTY (JULIA LEIGH, AUSTRALIA)

Screens at CIFF: 10/16 & 10/17 World premiere: 11 May, 2011, Cannes Film Festival Fairy tales are of their nature an obvious place for r...

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '11: LOVERBOY (CǍTǍLIN MITULESCU, ROMANIA)

Screens at CIFF: 10/9 & 10/14 & 10/15 World premiere: 18 May, 2011, Cannes Film Festival It's certainly too early to confidently...

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '11: THE SLUT (HAGAR BEN-ASHER, ISRAEL)

Screens at CIFF: 10/13 & 10/15 & 10/16 World premiere: 12 May, 2011, Cannes Film Festival If I were to lay out the plot of The Slut ...