*** CW: Depression and suicide *** Mental illness isn’t easily captured in film. It certainly isn’t often captured with the nuance and empathy that it deserves. While director Michael McGowan is without a doubt attempting to shine a light on…
Movie Review: Indignation
Logan Lerman has come a long way since playing a descendant of a Greek god (Percy Jackson). In Indignation, Lerman plays Marcus, a working-class Jewish teenager/young adult from New Jersey. In order to avoid heading to fight the Korean War,…
TV Review: 11.22.63 “The Day in Question”
Reaching its eight episode, this adaptation of the Stephen King novel 11.22.63 has come to its conclusion. Focusing on the day of Kennedy’s assassination, November 22nd, Jake Amberson (James Franco) and Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon) rush to the book factory where…
TV Review: 11.22.63 – 1×5 “The Truth”
In this week’s episode of 11.22.63, “The Truth,” Jake Epping (James Franco) has found himself in a rift with Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon,) after she stumbled upon one of Jake’s spy recordings of Lee Harvey Oswald (Daniel Webber). Realizing he…
TV Review: 11.22.63 1×4 “The Eyes of Texas”
In this week’s installment of the Hulu exclusive series 11.22.63, Jake Amberson (James Franco) and Bill (George MacKay) have begun surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald (Daniel Webber) from his apartment in Dallas, Texas. With the date set at March 25, 1963,…
Nourishing Films At Sundance: ‘Operation Avalanche,’ ‘Holy Hell’ and ‘Indignation’
Before the very first screening of every day at Sundance, I go out of my way to spend a few minutes at the festival headquarters to get free coffee and cookies. This has essentially become my unhealthy but also subsidized diet,…
Movie Review: ‘A Royal Night Out’
A period piece about Princess Elizabeth and her younger sister Margaret is one of the wildest, most bizarre and confounding films of the year – an equal mix of Disney princess fare, screwball comedies, old musicals, and also Superbad (without…