Review: In the House
There’s a great short story in Richard Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness called “Builders.” In it, one of the characters naively but sincerely ...
Tag: Drama
Reviews
Review: Side Effects
I have a very love-hate relationship with Stephen Soderbergh. He made my least favorite film of all time, Bubble, and my least favorite film ...
Trailers
Trailer: Somebody Up There Likes Me
In Somebody Up There Likes Me, Nick Offerman (of Parks & Rec fame) stars alongside Keith Poulson in an indie drama/comedy about love ...
Reviews
Film Comment Selects Review: Dormant Beauty
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...
Reviews
Film Comment Selects Review: 3
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...
Trailer: Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Amaya’s Bless Me, Ultima is the novel that changed my life completely. I read for the first time a few years back, ...
Reviews
Sundance Review: Lovelace
Pornography is a dirty business and I’m not strictly speaking about the clean-up crew. One doesn’t have to deeply penetrate the industry to ...
Reviews
Sundance Review: Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes
Throughout the entirety of Sundance, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes was the only movie I didn’t take any notes on. I guess ...
Reviews
Sundance Review: The Way, Way Back
The losers of high school dramas are cooler than me. Anthony Michael Hall and Jesse Eisenberg would be my high school’s presidents, not ...
Reviews
Sundance Review: Very Good Girls
Dakota Fanning is now old enough to play the role of the older sister and it freaks me out. Witnessing a child actor, ...
Sundance Review: Magic Magic
Some laugh at what scares them. This act can be perceived as obnoxious and puzzling to someone else in a theater, but it ...
First clip of jOBS reminds you it is a biopic
This first clip of jOBS, courtesy of Entertainment Tonight, (or if recent rumblings are true, JOBS) shows a heavy handed conversation between Steve Jobs (Ashton ...