It’s imperative that we establish a basic truth right off the bat. Maybe this is common knowledge and I’ve been living under a rock. It’s possible. I prefer to believe, however, that like me, most people have no idea just…
Movie Review: Dean
Dean is not, as it purports to be in nearly all of its marketing material, a “comedy about tragedy.” It’s more along the lines of a middling post-mumblecore dramedy about Demetri Martin wish-fulfilling himself into bed with Gillian Jacobs. Granted, that…
IFF Boston Review: Columbus
It’s imperative that we establish a basic truth right off the bat. Maybe this is common knowledge and I’ve been living under a rock. It’s possible. I prefer to believe, however, that like me, most people have no idea just…
Natalie Portman’s 5 Best Performances
Natalie Portman’s film career, starting at the age of 12 when she starred in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional, is replete with multifarious ups and downs—mostly ups. The actress has such an impressive array of great performances—2 of them nabbing…
Album Review: Angel Olsen – “My Woman”
For some studio albums, you can usually count on just a few memorable, single-worthy hit tracks with the rest either being slower-than-you-can-bear ballads or just being a little meh in comparison to the ones you end up playing out to…
Really Great Songs Straight from the Trailers
Movie trailers. Sometimes bad movies have engaging trailers and sometimes good movies have boring trailers. Sometimes they make us cry, and sometimes they give away the best parts of the movie. They play before the Youtube videos we want to…