Movie Review – Dark Shadows (2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Dark Shadows is director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp’s collaboration to bring the ’70s cult favorite soap opera to the big screen. Read more 
Thinking Outside the Multiplex in Indiana (May 11, 2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Lots of options this week and it shows no sign of slacking off the rest of the month. I’m looking forward to this year’s “Bigger Picture Show” of movie-inspired original posters, on tonight (and one night only) at the Big Car Service Center art gallery. What do you want to see?
My Top Pick for the Week
It’s outside my geographic orbit, but readers in South Bend and vicinity should block out an evening (or four) next week for the Michiana Jewish Film Festival at Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Read more
Keeping Track (May 10, 2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Last Week at the Movies
Keyhole- that undefinable Guy Maddin mix of avant-garde and kookiness
The Pirates! Band of Misfits- Aardman claymation, of course it was fun!
Footnote- didn’t measure up to expectations Read more
In the Blogosphere – May, 2012
by HELEN GEIB
A monthly round-up of some recent blog posts I enjoyed reading.
Little Worlds gives the nod to Ralph Fiennes’ imaginative direction of Coriolanus Read more
Thinking Outside the Multiplex in Indiana (May 4, 2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Lots and lots to see this week in Indianapolis. Less to see- relatively speaking- around the rest of the state as the university-based cinemas transition to summer schedules. The full listings after the break. What looks good to you?
My Top Pick for the Week
“Why are academic politics so vicious? Because the stakes are so small.”
My pick for the week is Israeli comedy-drama Footnote, about a father-son rivalry playing out in the rarefied world of Talmudic studies. It’s gotten great reviews and it starts today at the Keystone Art Cinema. Read more
Keeping Track (May 3, 2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Last Week at the Movies
Last Week at Home
High and Low- my favorite Kurosawa to finish up a four month film club director’s retrospective Read more
Two Lists, Ten Favorites: Films of Martin Scorsese
by GEOFF GEIB, NIR SHALEV and HELEN GEIB
An occasional feature where the writers compare their five favorite films by some of the greats of world cinema.
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942)
GEOFF’S TOP FIVE
To be clear, this list is pointedly different than a list of my five best Scorsese films would be, and there is no better evidence to this than the omission of titles like Taxi Driver or The Last Temptation of Christ, which, while great, great films, are hardly ones that scream out for multiple viewings while distractedly typing away on the computer and trying not to overcook the penne. The following five I could stop, start in the middle, or watch endlessly on a loop and never want for more. Read more
On DVD/Blu-ray – Review of The Edge (1997)
by NIR SHALEV
Billionaire Charles Morse (Sir Anthony Hopkins), his supermodel/trophy wife Mickey (Elle Macpherson), her photographer Robert Green (Alec Baldwin), and his crew arrive at an enormous and beautiful lake house in Alaska. They are surrounded by beautiful mountains and lakes that stretch to forever. Charles is book smart; almost too smart. His people skills, outside the business world, are essentially non-existent. He’s awkward, quiet, always inquisitive, and always reading one book or other. But he sees the way in which Robert looks at Mickey. Read more
Photo Play: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
by HELEN GEIB
This month on Photo Play: April showers bring… umbrellas.
