Film Review
John Woo’s new epic, Red Cliff, may lack heart, but it succeeds as a thrilling war film.

In its 22nd season, the former Dallas Video Festival has a new name, but its diverse, challenging offerings maintain its stature as Dallas’ best local film festival.

Film Review
Dipping into the ideas that fueled the turbulent years following 1968, Der Baader Meinhof Complex uses the past to bolster the myth of the Che Guevara t-shirt.

Film Review
The Informant! feels like Steven Soderbergh is venturing into non-violent Coen Brothers country, only the genre-jumping director’s latest effort surrounds a single fleshed-out character with a cast of flat characterizations.

Film Review
In Paris, a dying young dancer turns to his city and the people who live there for hope and a reminder of the mystery of life that is its salve.

Consider that for former The Onion editor, Robert Siegel, screenwriting is a second career. In two years, Siegel has proved a powerful cinematic voice with The Wrestler, and has now shown a talent behind the camera with Big Fan, the writer’s directorial debut. Renegade Bus’ Peter Simek spoke with Siegel about his film and making the jump from the fake news desk to the director’s chair.

Film Review
Paul from Staten Island, a nobody with a passion for the Giants, shows big character in Robert Siegel’s Big Fan.

Film Notes
Quintin Tarantino’s hellish comedy, Inglourious Basterds, drowns the audience in a potent cocktail of the filmmaker’s genius and humanity’s worst self. It is a hilarious, jaw-dropping, enjoyable, raucous of a good time. And that is what makes it so disturbing.

Film Review
Perhaps the general absence of wonder is because the film looks through Ponyo’s eyes, and the mysterious world is our own and mundane to us if not to her.

Film Review
In The Loop is a satiric take on how the invasion of Iraq happened, in this version a concatenation of questionable intelligence, lies and political thuggery. Whether this fits with your own beliefs or not, however, shouldn’t affect your enjoyment of the film – it’s not so much criticism of a side as it is of the entire intercontinental political structure.