It can be really nice to go into a film blank. No expectations, no idea, no concern. It’s the way we most classically enjoy stories. Someone just starts talking and you listen, letting them aurally guide you on a journey to some mystery location. So I urge you, don’t read this review, at least not yet. Go against…
Full disclosure, Jean-Marc Vallée has never really done anything for me as a filmmaker. I thought Dallas Buyers Club had some nice performances but was bland overall and Wild was frustratingly grating and I never understood the love that it received. His films struck me as…
With the advancing front of technology and the growing streaming options, film is undergoing something of a democratization. If you want to make a film, it is getting easier and easier to actually…
There aren’t many films with a nun at their center without the words Sister or Act in their title. Far fewer start by plastering a Marilyn Manson quote over the screen as if they are the words of scripture. But…
When I moved to Boston for college I remember hearing about a weird law that precluded more than four women from sharing the same residence. The story went that as soon as a house hit that magic female number it was deemed a brothel. It was something that people laughed about. What an absurd and antiquated…
It’s kind of amazing just how ubiquitous improv has gotten. I remember growing up on the British Whose Line Is It Anyway? and thinking that this fun bit of acting games was endlessly entertaining. But this was a time when improv was more ice breaker than craft building, when the thought…
Early in my screening of Pet I was struck with concern. All signs pointed to this piece of genre fare being something recycled and typical. Its main character was a strange loner…
At the center of Alex Taylor’s Spaceship is a group of cyber goth teenagers (which is apparently a thing now). These adolescents troll about expounding on the deeper meanings of life, toiling inconsequentially on the tenants of suicide, and generally not concerning…
Let’s get this out of the way up front. The trailer for Everybody Wants Some!! does not inspire confidence. When I heard that Richard Linklater was planning on making a “spiritual sequel…
I have long held the belief that every person has their obsession. For some people it’s clothes, for others it’s cars; for me, it’s movies. My free time is filled with film: watching films, reading about films, and writing about films. I have never sat down and…