Pickle (Cres Chuang) and Belly Button (Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen) are two broke, down-and-out drudges whose lives are as exciting and meaningful as their names might suggest. Pickle works as a night security guard at a metalworks manufacturing giant Buddha statues;…
Slamdance 2018 Review: Man on Fire
Grand Saline, Texas, a small-town of about 3,000 people a little ways out from Dallas, seems like any number of small towns dotting the Bible belt. Known primarily for its massive salt deposits owned by Morton Salt (“If you eat…
Slamdance 2018 Review: The Troubled Troubadour
It’s an image stolen, if not from one man’s dreams, then one man’s fevered hallucinations. A cranky sexagenarian, his long hair as white as his tiger-print poncho, neatly sits in a rowboat suspended by two wheeled beams above a train…
The Commuter Review: Liam Neeson’s latest is a flashy and fun ride
]There comes a moment in Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Commuter where all one’s problems with the film—all one’s disbelief towards its improbable premise, all one’s discomfort with its occasionally shoddy camerawork and editing—fall away. In this moment we realize our total…
Movie Review: Phantom Thread
Nestled within his Fitzrovia manor, Reynolds Woodcock holds court with nobles and heiresses as a reigning luminary of fashion. His every movement and gesture sighs with couched dignity–when he lifts his knuckles to his face in silent contemplation of a…
Movie Review: 1945
It’s August 12, 1945 and the sun beats down on the Hungarian countryside, baking the roads and frying the dirt into a fine, drifting powder. In the village, the wealthy town clerk Szentes István finishes the final preparations for his…
