We’re all shaped by two things: the people who raise us and the decade that inspires us. Writer/director Mike Mills has explored one side of his unique upbringing with 2010’s Beginners, the story of his closeted, cancer-ridden father and how…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: Youth in Oregon
What happens when your father decides that it’s time to end it all, that he’s tired of causing you and your family so much grief and pain, that he himself is tired of suffering and just wants, well, to die?…
Ally’s Movie Review: ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’
Based on a remarkable true story, The Stanford Prison Experiment is a taut, claustrophobic look at a psychological study in the 1970s about a group of college-aged men who were told to play the roles of prisoners and prison guards.…
Ally’s Movie Review: Rudderless
I’ve been a little bit in love with Billy Crudup ever since I watched Almost Famous six years ago and Russell Hammond walked onstage to perform “Fever Dog”. Imagine my delight, then, to hear that Crudup was once again going…