If Frank Capra’s cherubically bright and sunny screwball comedy You Can’t Take it With You seems hopelessly naive today a full eighty years after its debut, consider that a year to the day after its New York City premiere the…
Support the Girls is a Delightful working-class feel-good dramedy
Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) has had a very long, very difficult day. Last night she had to bail one of her servers out of jail after she accidentally hit her boyfriend with her car. This morning she’s interviewed several new…
What Keeps You Alive Movie Review: A thriller that borrows too liberally from other, better films
Spoilers ahead. Shortly before filming began on Colin Minihan’s bloody thriller What Keeps You Alive, the actor cast to play the film’s villain—a secretly psychotic husband who lures his wife to a remote cabin in the woods on their first…
Movie Review: Madeline’s Madeline is Undeniably Audacious Yet Inescapably Frustrating
Josephine Decker had to have known what she was doing when she named the protagonist of her latest film Madeline, a homophone of the small French sponge cake central to Marcel Proust’s sprawling modernist novel In Search of Lost Time. Wherein,…
Christopher Robin Truly Doesn’t Care If You’re Too Jaded to Enjoy It
“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you…
The Guardian Boasts Beautiful Art and Brave Politics, But Also An Unfollowable Story
Partially funded through Kickstarter and largely banned throughout its native China, Busifan’s The Guardian is an ambitious animated fairy tale equal parts high fantasy, wuxia, and Western. Set in a period of timeless antiquity, the film sees a grumpy, roly-poly…
Blank 13 is the Most Original and Moving Film on Death, Mourning, and Grief in Years
Charlie Kaufman once wrote that death comes faster than you think, and this is true but it also leaves slower than you’d want, for with a passing comes the flood of memories leaving a you-sized crater in the hearts of…
