Entrenched in a rural Pentecostal community of Appalachian snake handlers who risk their lives in order to test their devotion to God (led by a reliably skeezy Walton Goggins), a pastor’s daughter (Alice Engler of Ginger & Rosa and Beautiful…
Movie Review: Some Freaks
Teen coming-of-age films always try to convey the quirky mess of emotions that come with growing up and falling in love. Some Freaks captures that bittersweet alienation that brings together the most unlikely of people, the outcasts and the misfits.…
Movie Review: Blood Father
Some of the greatest films contain performances that felt like they were made specifically for the actor. It goes beyond method acting, where the actor ends up bending to every aspect of the role. What I’m talking about are films…
Movie Review: ‘Memoria’
Memoria is the latest film based on auteur James Franco’s novel Palo Alto Stories and California Childhood. Acting as another exploration into troubled and angst-ridden youth, the film follows Ivan, an introspective teen trying to make sense of his friends,…
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.…