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Egoyan’s brilliant erotic thriller ‘Exotica’ looks desperation in the eye

Atom Egoyan’s serpentine erotic thriller, Exotica, is a flawless exercise in understated urgency. Flashbacks, arresting visuals, and Mychael Danna’s score slowly reveal a web of strangers inextricably linked by one man’s suffering. It’s less a cinematic puzzle than an organic realization. When all of the mysteries are unraveled, you know a little bit more about the Human condition. Though many consider The Sweet Hereafter to be Egoyan’s masterpiece, Exotica is fearless indie filmmaking at its best.

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Dr. Death Movie Expanded/Is Sacha Baron Cohen in danger?/Broken Social Scene movie/RIP Walter Cronkite

New cast in Kervorkian film: The cast of the new film about the high profile doctor, Dr. Jack Kervorkian,  who fought “…to establish the right to die for terminally ill patients…” has announced an expansion of its cast.  The made-for-TV film is entitled “You Don’t Know Jack,” and it will be directed by Barry Levinson.  …

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