Reginald Williams

Juno with Ellen Page and Michael Cera. Directed by Jason Reitman and written by 2008 Academy Award-winner Diablo Cody, Juno is what most teen movies are not: non-commercial, with an “agenda” between the pages of its screenplay. In other words,…

JCVD with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Mabrouk El Mechri’s JCVD is one of the best films Jean-Claude Van Damme has starred in for some years, equal to his more recent efforts in Wake of Death and Replicant. Van Damme really puts…

Writer-director Edward Burns’ perfectly watchable Purple Violets is a romantic drama about relationships and, to a lesser extent, the world of fiction writing. The film’s focal point is Patti Petalson (Selma Blair), a real-estate agent who has been married for…

‘Let the Right One In.’ Directed by Tomas Alfredson from a screenplay by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Låt den rätte komma in / Let the Right One In is not only a satisfying horror film from beginning to end – one…

Young People Fucking. Directed by Martin Gero and written by Gero and Aaron Abrams, Young People Fucking is a film about, you guessed it, young adults engaging in sexual intercourse, the situations surrounding the acts, and the lives of the…

Batman: Gotham Knight is a direct-to-DVD animated film in six segments, each directed by a different East Asian filmmaker. The animation quality, both in terms of character and environment detail, exceeds that of the animation found in all the Batman:…

Teeth movie with Jess Weixler. Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Teeth is a horror movie with comedic elements that deals with mutation, virginity, and the myth of vagina dentata. Dawn O’Keefe (Jess Weixler) is a teenage girl who was born with teeth…

Water Lilies. Writer-director Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies / Naissance des pieuvres is a film about teens beginning to discover who they are. It is also a film that actually stars teens – as opposed to mid-twenty-year-olds playing teens – without…