‘Hitchcock’ Review A good look into the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of ‘Psycho.’ Release Date: November 23, 2012 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Synopsis HITCHCOCK is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. […]
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Holiday 2012 Must See Movies
Happy Holidays, everyone. This year the FilmFracture team brings you the most anticipated, and must see movies, of the 2012 Holiday Movie Season. Some may be obvious–The Hobbit–others not so much–Silent Night–but they are coming to theatres to make your holiday a little more bright, while being spent in the dark. Here they are, […]
Film Review: ‘Sister’ (L’enfant d’en haut)
Synopsis: L’enfant d’en haut is a drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests. Release Date: November 17, 2012 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, Foreign Film Review Production Sister (L’enfant d’en haut) is a Swiss film by French director Ursula Meier (Home), a […]
AFI FEST 2012 Film Review: Barbara (Dir. Christian Petzold Germany 2012)
Barbara’s elliptical beginning delivers the eponymous heroine, a doctor, to a provincial hospital in a seaside town. She is just released from some unspecified incarceration, and still under surveillance from the implacable secret police. Only gradually do we realize that this is East Germany in the early 80s, and only gradually do we warm to […]
AFI FEST 2012 Film Review: Laurence Anyways (Dir. Xavier Dolan Canada/France 2012)
Xavier Dolan stretches out with his third feature, not just in budget and length, but in matching his emotionally high-pitched material with an equally bravura style, and in tackling a subject less frequently seen on screen even than the tortured mother-son relationship of his début éclatant, I Killed My Mother [2009], or the MMF love […]