All articles by David Kempler

Danish film tells the true story of young German soldiers being used to defuse mines after World War II. Their treatment was illegal and perhaps immoral, but was it wrong?

An Austrian documentarian exposes damning information that might cause many an American citizen to lose sleep, like we really need another reason.

Australian adaptation of the 1884 play, Wild Duck, is more lame than wild.

Full-length feature debut marks Michael Lennox as a director who may be on the way to a very successful career in film-making.

Doc on Hot Jazz revivalist is a celebration of a music genre that still has life in it.

Billed as a German comedy, but rather a comically dark drama, it manages to grow on you long after you have seen it.

Instead of watching and studying a tribe in Africa, this documentary takes four members of said tribe to Germany to watch and study their natives. It’s a smile-fest.

Documentary of an Israeli basketball team that won a European championship in 1977 isn’t great, but it may be good enough.

Warren Beatty returns to acting and directing. Maybe he should have waited a little longer or for something more worthwhile.

After 13 years, Billy Bob Thornton returns as the boozing, thieving Santa we loved. He shouldn’t have.