ben foster | etc-etera

Review: Galveston

Adapted from the novel by True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, Galveston is a striking Southern noir meets Jim Thompson hybrid...

The brutality and plaintive poetry displayed in the opening minutes of Hostiles sets the tone for what follows in writer-director Scott...

The West Texan town in which the blazingly good film Hell or High Water is set seems a stereotypically sleepy town. Look closer and its...

What would Hitchcock, lover of MacGuffins, have made out of Inferno, which is essentially one big MacGuffin from start to finish? There's...

Will anything ever surpass, much less match, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has cast a gargantuan shadow over the...

There are films that are both well-told and well-crafted, films that are perfectly fine, at times even excellent, but won't linger in the...

Lance Armstrong's fall from grace has been fashioned as an emotionally hollow but narratively compelling combination of Frankenstein...