When most think about the Civil Rights Movement of the ‘60s, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks come to mind. But there’s always someone thinking outside the square trying to get another viewpoint; another opinion. That’s where Kathryn Stockett comes in with her 2009 fictional novel-turned-film The Help. Yes, that’s right, fictional. While a court case against Stockett unsuccessfully claimed that the author did use the names and images of [...]

Compiled from thousands of hours of video footage submitted by amateurs from all around the globe, the Ridley Scott produced, Kevin Macdonald directed Life in a Day is a stunning tableau of all the struggles, tragedies and triumphs that occur in the span of a single ordinary day – July 24^th, 2010. Neither narrative nor documentary, the film, simultaneously beautiful and ugly, funny and heartbreaking, epic and intimate, simple and [...]

Despite being released in 1992, James Foley’s stage-adapted workplace drama Glengarry Glen Ross has more relevance now than it ever could have during the 90s.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, profitability is now synonymous with mass redundancy. For proof, you need only look toward the national unemployment rate in the US, which has almost doubled since the end of the 20^th century. You have a family to support? [...]

In a sea of sloppy sequels (Pirates of the Caribbean 4) and rote remakes (The Hangover Part 2), X-men: First Class immediately stands out for simply being something different — good.

Taking a leaf out of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, First Class goes back to the beginning [...]

Nicolas Winding Refn quoted the filming of his latest effort as “the best Hollywood experience I could ever have” at the Cannes post-screening conference. For the Danish man who’s had previous European arthouse success, it seems the ultimate dream’s finally reared its head. And for his first US effort he hasn’t wasted the opportunity, blending a cocktail of noir and action with a pinch of romance to deliver a violent [...]

Racial, religious and political tensions are one of many concurrent themes at Cannes 2011 (as with film in general), with a new initiative fittingly portraying the recent turbulence in the Middle East through the eyes of  in the film Where Do We Go Now? After her debut Caramel (2007), Lebanese film-maker Nadine Labaki has a very strong take on her home country and its own cultural issues, where she blends [...]

With An Inconvenient Truth in 2007, director Davis Guggenheim brought the pressing issue of global warming to the big screen, winning an Oscar and proving that Michael Moore wasn’t the only documentary filmmaker who could bring in a crowd. Waiting for “Superman” is a similarly sobering experience, in which he asks us again to face up to our responsibilities – not to Mother Earth this time, but to our children.