ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT > MOVIE REVIEW
By R. Kurt Osenlund
With “The Innkeepers,” the first thing writer/director Ti West does is prove that a modern horror film can be scary and still look like a million bucks. In this era of DIY, found-footage thrillers, where spookiness and value are often determined by lack of refinement, West is a very welcome respite, offering a true aesthetic and revealing grand influences like Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT > MOVIE REVIEW
By R. Kurt Osenlund
Death takes predatory form in “The Grey,” a spiritualistic, outdoorsy Alaska thriller that sees a group of plane-crash survivors attempt to outrun a pack of ravenous wolves, which is to say their own collective, relentless fate
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT > MOVIE REVIEW
By R. Kurt Osenlund
Surely there’s a movie out there with a child’s-eye perspective on 9/11 that’s worth seeing and shedding communal tears over. “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” however, is most certainly not that movie, and the fact that it’s been withheld as an automatic awards contender brands its producers as arrogant and presumptuous.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT > MOVIE REVIEW
By R. Kurt Osenlund
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association hands out is Golden Globe Awards Sunday. Read on to see who could, should and will emerge victorious in all the show’s film categories.
