The highly prolific, multi-hyphenate James Franco may be experiencing a height in his creativity. But is he a good (or promising) director, based on the three films that he has helmed?

CALVARY, John Michael McDonagh’s black comedy-drama, begins with a bang–actually a threat. In a small Irish parish – in the midst of his confession – a man tells the notoriously good-hearted local priest, Father James, that he should settle all his affairs since the confessor plans to murder him this coming Sunday:  thus begins a […]

highlight of the 2014 Cannes Film Fest and a major achievement in Mike Leigh’s career, Mr. Turner will be released in the fall after playing the Toronto Film Fest.

In Paul Mazursky’s light comedy of culture collision, the young Robin Williams, on the verge of becoming a major star, plays Vladimir Ivanoff, a Russian saxophon player working with the Moscow circus.

Paul Mazursky Tribute: The director’ss second homage to classic French cinema was the great 1986 Down and Out in Beverly Hills, based on Jean Renoir’s great 1932 film.