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…
Papillon Movie Review: Bad accents and boring dialogue traps true story
“Filmmaking is not about the tiny details, it’s about the big picture!” This is a line from the 1994 biopic Ed Wood when the iconic title character tried to explain why it didn’t matter if the graveyard he’s shooting his…
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…
The Wife Movie Review: Glenn Close’s spectacular performance can’t elevate regressive clichés
The Wife, despite its familiar packaging, believes its method of delivery is substantially more clever than it is. A film whose very title thinks it’s doing something new and subversive, it results in little more than delivering a message as regressive…
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…
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…