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  • Teeth
    Year: 
    2008
    Director: 
    Mitchell Lichtenstein
    Cast: 
    Appleman, John Hensley, Ashley Springer, Lenny von Dohlen, Jess Wexler
    Rating: 
    B
    Reviewed by: 
    Ethan Robinson

    Our reviewer has been excited by Teeth for quite a while now. It’s just such a great concept — reclaiming the vagina dentata! So much possibility! So much expectation. So much pressure to love the damn thing. Ethan Robinson is prepared to be dazzled...

  • Gone Baby Gone
    Year: 
    2007
    Director: 
    Ben Affleck
    Cast: 
    Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, and Amy Ryan
    Rating: 
    A-
    Reviewed by: 
    David Holmes
    Like Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone probes the unimaginable horror of losing a child by examining the tragedy from the perspectives of the family, the police, and the perpetrators, while obscuring the lines that separate each of these concerned parties. David Holmes finds much to admire in Ben Affleck's gripping directorial debut
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Year: 
    2007
    Director: 
    Tim Burton
    Cast: 
    Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
    Rating: 
    A
    Reviewed by: 
    Ethan Robinson

    Near-miss after near-miss after downright stinker - Tim Burton enthusiasts have been frustrated for years at his unreliable output, often slipping into a parody of his former glory, finding it hard to tread the delicate line on which he once blazed his trail. For one of the visionaries of our time, his strike-rate is dangerously high. Ethan Robinson gives the wild-maned loon one last chance to save his reputation as the dark prince of Hollywood.

  • Funny Games
    Year: 
    2008
    Director: 
    Michael Haneke
    Cast: 
    Tim Roth, Naomi Watts, Brady Corbet, Michael Pitt
    Rating: 
    B+
    Reviewed by: 
    Patrick Mckay
    Funny Games is a tale of vacationing suburbanites whose summer home is invaded by a pair of sadistic psychotics in golf shirts and white gloves and perhaps best viewed as the sort of coolly cinematic chiller than Hitchcock would have loved – or even made. Patrick Mckay gets under the skin of Haneke's first American jaunt.
  • Michael Clayton
    Year: 
    2007
    Director: 
    Tony Gilroy
    Cast: 
    George Clooney. Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton
    Rating: 
    B
    Reviewed by: 
    David Holmes
    Michael Clayton has simply no right to be as good as it is. Working firmly within the “hot-shot- lawyer-battles- evil-establishment” genre, you’d think there’d be no new territory to explore that hasn’t already been beaten to a pulp by countless John Grisham adaptations.
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  • 'U2 3D' Not the First IMAX Art Film: An Interview with Elka Krajewska
    Writer: 
    Nancy Keefe Rhodes

    Nancy Keefe Rhodes interviews the New York City based film maker about her rule-breaking new film Plany Mela, screened at the 4th Syracuse International Film Festival. The experimental form, mixed with live performance, shows that there's an interesting future for the giant screen.

  • Dead Time: Embalming Romero's Classic
    Writer: 
    Laavanyan Ratnapalan

    For a work that has been lauded for its subversion of life in 1960s America, the technical aspects of its production affirm the merits of the society that it is held to subvert. A less flexible country and period would most likely not have permitted the creation of Night of the Living Dead. Laavanyan Ratnapalan reads Romero's classic in context.

  • Stop Making Sense Vs The Last Waltz
    Writer: 
    David Holmes

    When the coke-dust settles and the bodies are swept from the battlefield, will Jonathon Demme’s exhilarating take on the Talking Heads’ Speaking in Tongues tour reign victorious? Or is it no match for the cultural zeitgeist of Martin Scorsese’s elegiac chronicle of The Band’s final performance? Only one way to find out…

  • Vanishing Point: 70s Directors Today
    Writer: 
    Paolo Cabrelli
    The Last Picture Show There are a good many filmmakers from the 70s who were unable to drag themselves out of the decade intact, some unable to reach beyond a single success, some inexplicably out of luck or ideas, and many exploring the outskirts of the industry for the last three decades in a state of bemusement. The 70s may have been home to some of the most lucid, lurid and vociferous figures in the history of film but it was also a rickety platform for some of the most unsustainably enigmatic.
  • Sunken Treasure: The Drowned World of Lost Films
    Writer: 
    Paolo Cabrelli

    Queen KellyA lost movie is like a locked treasure chest: the tension and expectation over what's locked away is almost too much to take. From the many mislaid projects of Welles to the stange concentration camp comedy of Jerry Lewis, and from the butchered epic of von Stroheim to Gilliam's Ubik, FilmSlash delves deep into the murky waters of the lost movie and finds that, sometimes, they're best left buiroed under the sand.

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