Category: Film
Addicted to Fresno Explores the Anomalous Existence of Central California
To most people, even those living in it, Fresno is no more than a truck stop along the way to somewhere better. Jamie Babbit, best [Read More…]
The Overnight: A Strange Update to Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Patrick Brice’s second feature, The Overnight, is a far cry from his first, Creep. The latter is darkly comedic tale of murder and obsession while [Read More…]
The Iconography of the “My Sharona” Scene in Reality Bites
Helen Childress‘ only movie to date remains the spokesperson (spokesfilm?) for a generation that is 1994’s Reality Bites. The many issues and concerns of that [Read More…]
Still Alice: Stilling the Tumultuous Waters of Alzheimer’s
It’s rare that a movie about a cause can toe the delicate line between raising awareness and being taken seriously without bordering on sheer triteness. Richard [Read More…]
People Places Things: A Coup for Jemaine Clement & James C. Strouse
Screenwriter James C. Strouse has made a name for himself with more dramatic films like Lonesome Jim and Grace Is Gone. Traces of his tragicomic [Read More…]
I Am Chris Farley Gets You Into The Skin of One of the Greatest Comics of All-Time
“We realize perfectly well that all the characters that we play are really subsets of ourselves. They’re just ourselves in slightly different moods, ourselves carrying [Read More…]
Something Rings False About True Story
With a movie title like True Story, it’s no surprise that, yes, it’s based on a true story–incidentally, a book based on a true story. [Read More…]
Far From The Madding Crowd: A Faithful Adaptation That’s Still All Its Own
In general, movie adaptations–especially ones that have already been done before–rarely offer anything new to enliven or enrich the original literature on which they are [Read More…]
Tom at the (Funny) Farm
Xavier Dolan’s fourth film (and only now at the still tender age of twenty-six), Tom at the Farm, is the sort of narrative that might [Read More…]
The Second Mother: A Many-Layered Title & Film
Brazilian writer-director Anna Muylaert’s fourth film, The Second Mother, is a multi-layered film not just about the pratfalls of motherhood, but the complications of class division when emotions [Read More…]
