Elias Savada

IDA

By Elias Savada | May 2014

Life is full of strangeness. “Ida” offers up a quixotic glimpse at the human condition, and a diversion from the expected…

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IDA

In 1962, 18-year-old novitiate nun Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), a demure, unassuming orphan born during WWII, is on the verge of taking her vows at the...

THE IMMIGRANT

Just under a year ago, James Gray's nostalgic film "The Immigrant" premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Up for the Palme d'Or, it didn't win. No...

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

Let's do the time warp again. The X-Men are back and looking better than ever, in 3-D and IMAX of course, and with a mind-stretching yet eternally...

OFIR

Quixotically (for the uninitiated, like myself) billed as a wildlife crime documentary, this low-key, micro-budgeted labor of love from Baltimore-based...

NEIGHBORS

Apparently set in a fantasy universe where parents abandon their infants for long stretches of (party) time, "Neighbors" is the latest in a stream of "R"...

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2

If there's anything that Spider-Man has learned in the two years since his latest reboot with "The Amazing Spider-Man," it's schtick. Yeah, that...

BAD JOHNSON

"I wish my dick would just leave me alone." Enlightening, eh? Having seen thousands of movies in my lifetime, occasionally one comes along that...

ONE PLEASE

This review was originally published on January 19, 2014... There's a lovely cadence to "One Please," a short horror entry that has an appealing taste,...

FINDING NEIGHBORS

Sometimes I feel like Sam Tucker, the sad-eyed protagonist of director-writer Ron Judkins' latest feature "Finding Neighbors," a Kickstarter-assisted...

3 MILE LIMIT

A David vs. Goliath story. A bit of romance. A pleasant cast with a handsome, everyman's hero lead. Government oppression. A questioning press. A heartfelt...

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