Sam Riley

Radioactive Review: Intermittently Glowing Biopic

Radioactive is a largely competent biopic of the scientist Marie Curie. The film does a serviceable job of fleshing out the woman who is often nodded toward in history books, though the lead performance pulls much of that weight.  Rosamund Pike stars as the feisty and brilliant Marie. Radioactive spans most of her adult life, […]

Free Fire Review

Director Ben Wheatley returns with his simplest and most purely entertaining effort to date

Maleficent Review

Maleficent is an odd little movie that manages to both pleasantly surprise and disappoint in equal amount.

TIFF 2012 Reviews: Part 3

With opening day of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival now upon us, Dork Shelf's coverage rolls on with looks at Stories We Tell, On the Road, The Hunt, Peddlers, Tower, Lore, 90 Minutes, and Blackbird.

13 Review

Sometimes a press release comes along that’s just too implausible to pass up. There’s just something about it that catches the eye or something in the content that contains a hard to refuse offer. Such is the case with this week’s direct to DVD release of the film 13. The release stated that the film starred Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Alexander Skarsgard and Michael Shannon in a remake of director Gela Babluani’s wonderful 2005 film 13 Tzameti with Babluani returning to helm the new version.