LAFF 2013: SHORT TERM 12 Movie Review

Posted by Eric Ambler - 06/17/2013 - Film Festivals, LAFF, Movie Review, Movies

SHORT TERM 12 delivers powerful emotions in a moving drama about the ersatz family created by the staff of a group foster care facility.

BIG STAR Documentary Gets a Trailer and Poster

Posted by Eric Ambler - 06/12/2013 - Movies, News, Trailers

A trailer and poster for the rock doc BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME, about the career of the influential Memphis power pop quartet.

NOW YOU SEE ME Movie Review

Posted by Eric Ambler - 06/06/2013 - Movie Review, Movies

NOW YOU SEE ME is a satisfyingly silly hybrid of an ensemble heist movie and a cat-and-mouse thriller – with magic!

FROM THE HEAD Movie Review

Posted by Eric Ambler - 06/02/2013 - Movie Review, Movies

The surprisingly banal goings-on in a strip club restroom are chronicled extensively in FROM THE HEAD, the autobiographical account of a men’s room attendant.

THE EAST Movie Review

Posted by Eric Ambler - 05/30/2013 - Movie Review, Movies

THE EAST is an engrossing, if far-fetched, eco-thriller from the creative partnership behind SOUND OF MY VOICE.

THE GREAT GATSBY Movie Review

Posted by Eric Ambler - 05/21/2013 - Movie Review, Movies

Baz Luhrmann’s boldly theatrical take on THE GREAT GATSBY dazzles the eye but fails to nourish the soul.

FRANCES HA Movie Review

Posted by Eric Ambler - 05/18/2013 - Movie Review, Movies

Noah Baumbach’s most charming film to date, FRANCES HA, banks on the charm of Greta Gerwig in a bittersweet portrait of a woman in her late 20s still trying to grow up and fit in.