film commentary

How good can the sequel be if you've already forgotten everything about the original? Hopefully better than having to talk to your family members...

Flashing back to his high-school days, the LA-based writer-director ponders how you should discuss a film you don't feel strongly about either way.

The veteran horror director highly recommends this taut, tough, darkly funny Australian thriller, but warns that it's not one for the squeamish.

When he was 13, he loved the original and thought it was the most hilarious thing ever. Twenty years on, will he think the sequel is funny at all?

Jarvis Cocker may be a great songwriter, but that doesn't mean a film on his band is interesting. Or that writing about movies is straightforward...

The documentary filmmaker is greatly impressed by this intimate, simply told drama, and particularly by one movingly authentic opening scene.

A Western that defies the trends of current mainstream cinema and proves that one of the finest actors of our generation is also a great filmmaker.

The traumatic aftermath of colonial rule is explored in this vérité documentary about an Angolan orphanage and the rock concerts it organizes.

The "Twisted Twins" on their love for the work of the Japanese cult auteur and his new film, a deranged and operatically gory valentine to the movies.

In this fine new HBO documentary about the legendary soul singer, you hear, feel and see the great man's music, and also learn the stories behind it.

A beautifully shot documentary that plays like a thriller and is issue-driven to boot — so why aren't more people embracing this film?

An epic look at an epic film, and how the rules of the world work (or don't) in Nolan's latest magnum opus.