October’s slate of releases on The Criterion Collection is pretty great, but maybe don’t take that from me, because I am a Guillermo del Toro partisan: Take it from all of us at Paste Magazine’s Criterion round-up team. October isn’t just about del Toro, though it mostly is. It’s also about Kenji Mizoguchi, Luis García … Continue reading
Here’s the deal: I worked a really, really, really long time on this list, and so did the people I worked on it with, and you just know by the title what the whole thing is all about. I’m not going to slow walk you through it. Just take this magical link to Paste Magazine to scope … Continue reading
“Mississippi Grind is a low-stakes movie about high-stakes people who flirt with life and death. Films about gamblers tend toward the tragic more often than they do the comedic (Ocean’s Elevenfilms notwithstanding), butMississippi Grind never quite imposes a sense of danger to its lead Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn), even when he receives text messages from a … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 