LFM Reviews The Man on the Eiffel Tower @ The Cine-Simenon Retrospective 9 Aug 2013 | 01:38 am

By Joe Bendel. Georges Simenon remains one of the best known Belgian writers, but his signature detective, French Police Commissaire Jules Maigret, has been played by French, British, Dutch, Italian, ...

LFM Reviews A Man’s Neck @ The Cine-Simenon Retrospective 9 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am

By Joe Bendel. Georges Simenon led a colorful life. There might have been a few women and some fast living. After the war, he also faced allegations of collaboration, but his defenders always maintain...

LFM’s Govindini Murty Talks with Elysium’s Diego Luna @ HuffPost Live 8 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am

David Tennant Investigates: LFM Reviews Broadchurch; Premieres Wednesday (8/7) on BBC America 6 Aug 2013 | 11:37 am

By Joe Bendel. It is the drama that made Twitter explode in the UK. Fox has plans for an Americanized version for the 2014-15 season, but intrigued viewers only have to wait eight weeks to find out wh...

Redemption Leaves a Serious Mark: LFM Reviews King of the Streets; Available Now on Blu-ray/DVD 6 Aug 2013 | 11:35 am

By Joe Bendel. Yue Feng’s specialty is facing down large gangs of lead pipe wielding toughs. He is so good at it, he has done time. There is a reason they used to call him “the Street Fighter.” He wou...

LFM Review The Tiger Mask @ The 2013 Fantasia International Film Festival 5 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm

By Joe Bendel. To give credit where it is due, the underground bouts produced by a shadowy criminal syndicate are not fixed. On the other hand, they often end with a fatality. Three of their up-and-co...

LFM Reviews The Great Passage @ The 2013 Fantasia International Film Festival 3 Aug 2013 | 04:15 am

By Joe Bendel. Remember when Microsoft was in the ink-and-paper reference business? Now the Encarta seems like a relic from a past era. In contrast, the new dictionary a diligent Japanese publishing t...

LFM Reviews Cockneys vs. Zombies 3 Aug 2013 | 04:15 am

By Joe Bendel. Finally, someone has made the EastEnders episode you always wanted to see. The title pretty much tells you everything you need to know about Matthias Hoene’s Cockneys vs. Zombies, which...

LFM Reviews The Dead Experiment @ The 2013 Fantasia International Film Festival 3 Aug 2013 | 04:14 am

By Joe Bendel. For too long, only mad scientists in the Dr. Frankenstein tradition have been bold enough to challenge death. Finally, two respectably under-achieving grad students will strive to cure ...

Found Footage, First Contact: LFM Reviews Europa Report 30 Jul 2013 | 11:22 pm

By Joe Bendel. This will either be private space exploration’s finest moment or its greatest tragedy. For the six intrepid astronauts in question, it will either be first contact or bust in Sebastián ...