All articles by David Kempler

Spike Lee takes us along with him into mainstream filmmaking and we survive.

Overgrown middle-aged son won’t move out of his parent’s house. I wish the whole bunch of them would move to another planet.

The folks behind the Matrix franchise try to branch out, but they shouldn’t have bothered.

Idiots walk through a desert believing they are evolving into higher beings. You can either doze off or throw things at the screen.

Director Richard Donner knows action. Unfortunately there’s nothing else here.

Judi Dench is lights out perfect in this tale based on the true story of the Windmill Theatre in London in the 30s.

When divorce hits a Brooklyn family their lives are tossed off the rails and all of them are free-wheeling and without brakes.

Director Eugene Jarecki takes a new approach in explaining why America has been in a near perpetual state of war since WWII.

Writer-Director Michael Haneke grabs us by the lapels and doesn’t let go. Not even at the end.