Slumdog Millionaire: Lucrative Life Lessons

Dev Patel and Freida Pinto. Photo: Searchlight Pictures A mass of energy. That's what screenwriter Simon Beaufoy claims to have picked up from his meetings with street children in India,…

Friday the 13th – A New Beginning 

Tommy Jarvis (John Shepard) is now a teenager, but his encounter with Jason Vorhees has turned him into a mental wreck; he checks into an open rehab facility, but then…

Friday the 13th 

Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) comes to Crystal Lake looking for his sister and her friends who went missing there six weeks ago; he doesn't know that they were attacked by…

Friday the 13th – The Final Chapter 

After escaping from the local morgue, Jason makes his way back to Crystal Lake where he finds new teens to kill – and a young boy (Corey Feldman) who will…

A Swedish Love Story: Celebrating Youth

Ann-Sofie Kylin and Rolf Sohlman. Photo: Europa Film A few minutes into Roy Andersson’s lauded, now classic film debut, there’s a distinct Bo Widerberg touch. In the late 1960s, Andersson…

Friday the 13th Part III 

On the day after the gruesome killings in chapter two, Jason Vorhees attacks a local couple and then finds another group of teenagers to terrorize. It seems natural for the…

Kill Bill Vol. 2 

The second half of Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino’s tale of revenge suffers from overlength, but it is undeniably rewarding to see the emotional parts of the story take up…

Kill Bill Vol. 1 

Quentin Tarantino’s first movie in six years lacks the expected quality in dialogue and there isn’t much of a story. One is, however, left in awe of his creative mind…

Clockwork Orange: Hanging With Your Droogs

Malcolm McDowell. Photo: Warner Author Anthony Burgess allegedly complained that this film adaptation of his novel became so talked-about that it overshadowed everything else he did. Director Stanley Kubrick's film…