2014 was a very good year for movies.  It wasn’t great.  It wasn’t a watershed.  It was a year where I found plenty of movies I liked, but few I loved.  Two of my favorite films this year I saw …

Critics and the general populace live very different lives.  Critics live in the bubble—a wonderful place where you see movies early and for free.  Other moviegoers must carve out time in a busy schedule, track down films, and then pay …

The Best Documentary Feature Oscar race is off and running, and the contenders aren’t lacking in quality non-fiction filmmaking.  Out of 134 submissions, 15 films have advanced in the category and will be competing for a nomination in the 87th …

One of the greatest movies never made, Alejandro Jodorowsky – famous for his midnight movies El Topo and The Holy Mountain – spent two years in the seventies attempting to make an adaptation of Frank Hebert’s Dune, only for his …

New to Blu-ray this week is the fascinating documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune. I caught the film earlier today and have no reservation calling it a must-see for sci-fi fans. Seeing Alejandro Jodorowsky passionately recant the events that led to his convincing …

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include a rather epic martial arts/action sequel (featuring a cover quote by Collider’s own Matt Goldberg), director Lars von Trier’s epic of a different sort, a documentary about a film that doesn’t exist, Jason Bateman’s …

As I’ve said in previous reviews, I love watching artists be passionate about their art. True artists create not because they want to, but because they have to. As one of the interviewees says in Frank Pavich’s documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, …

The best thing I can say about director Jose Padilha‘s RoboCop remake is that, for better or worse, it tries to do its own thing. It makes an honest attempt at updating the scathing social critique of the original to …

One of the best films I saw at last year’s Toronto Interntional Film Festival was Jodorowsky’s Dune. The documentary goes behind the scenes of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s astoundingly ambitious adaptation of the Frank Herbert sci-fi novel Dune. Frank Pavich’s documentary is …

Today, we’re pleased to premiere an exclusive new poster for Frank Pavich‘s fascinating and entertaining documentary, Jodorowsky’s Dune.  The film chronicles the attempt of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo) to adapt Frank Herbert‘s classic sci-fi novel, Dune.  I caught the …