Entrenched in a rural Pentecostal community of Appalachian snake handlers who risk their lives in order to test their devotion to God (led by a reliably skeezy Walton Goggins), a pastor’s daughter (Alice Engler of Ginger & Rosa and Beautiful…
NYFF Review: The Rehearsal
I like to think that when Alison Maclean finished shooting her new film The Rehearsal, she and her editor Jonno Woodford-Robinson sat down and numbered each scene individually. Maclean then flipped a coin. If it was heads, all the even-numbered…
Gaby’s Movie Review: ‘Ginger and Rosa’
Sally Potter’s latest film explores friendship, love and family in 1960s London during the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of two teenage girls. Elle Fanning and newcomer Alice Englert play inseparable friends, Ginger and Rosa. The two have done…
Gaby’s Movie Review: ‘Beautiful Creatures’
A few years ago, I picked up Beautiful Creatures, the first of YA series about castors in a small Southern town. What first attracted me to the book was the fact that it had a male perspective, which seemed like…