Film Review: THE TRIP TO ITALY

Directed by Michael Winterbottom, based on a TV series and the 2010 film THE TRIP Starring: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon The success of the 2010 film THE TRIP pretty much assured another adventure for the duo. In the first film, they trudged through the North of...

Film Review: FRANK

FRANK Directed by Lenny Abramson Written by Jon Ronson, Peter Straughan Starring: Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhall, Scott McNary It is wrong, wrong, wrong to put Michael Fassbender's lovely face behind such a ludicrous blowup head, but if you...

Film Review: A MOST WANTED MAN

Directed by Anton Corbijn Written by Andrew Bovell, based on the novel by John LeCarre Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Grigory Dobrygin, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright In many ways this is the perfect film to end a career on. It is a dour, depressing,...

GONE GIRL: Vow promo

Directed by David Fincher and based on the bestselling novel by Gillian Flynn, GONE GIRL unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy...

Film Review: BOYHOOD

BOYHOOD Written and Directed by Richard Linklater Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater What could have turned out to be little more than a gimmick instead provides us with one of the great films of 2014 with BOYHOOD. Twelve...

2014 Traverse City Film Festival

The 10th year of the Traverse City Film Festival took place on July 29-August 3 in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan. The brain child of film maker, Michael Moore, each year has seen the festival grow in the number of films offered, venues, attendees, and prestige....