Category: Film
I Know Who Killed Me: Lindsay Lohan’s Grown Up Version of The Parent Trap
By 2007, Lindsay Lohan had long ago lost the public’s interest in her actual acting. It was instead about what sort of tabloid fodder she [Read More…]
Murder on the Orient Express Reminds Us to Embrace the Gray Areas of Life
Remakes of classic films–and worse yet, classic films based on equally as classic books–tend always to be dicey. And even with Kenneth Branagh’s faithful rendering [Read More…]
Lady Bird As Frances Ha Origin Story
Sacramento doesn’t often grace the frames of well-financed, well-acted films (there’s been the way under the radar Other People with Molly Shannon as the only [Read More…]
My Friend Dahmer Details the Pre-Serial Killer Era of An Adolescent In Need of a Connection
Though serial killers are always ultimately painted as gruesome non-human caricatures when the body count tally finally gets publicized, there is almost always a backstory [Read More…]
Taking Cues From Her Sacramento Forebears, Didion and Ringwald, Greta Gerwig Adds to the Parsimonious List of Abashed Love Letters to the City
As Greta Gerwig’s directorial and solo writing debut, it’s only right that she should go for the most autobiographical subject possible: the California capital city [Read More…]
Loving Vincent (Is Easy Through the Lens of His Art)
The tortured life of Vincent Van Gogh has long been discussed, examined and held up as a beacon of the ultimate definition of what it [Read More…]
Jeune Femme: “I was everything to him, and now I’m nothing.”
It’s been an exceptional year for female film debuts (Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird at the forefront). And Léonor Serraille’s Jeune Femme (alternately called Montparnasse Bienvenue) is [Read More…]
The Florida Project: Exposing Celebration as the Vegas of the Sunshine State
It’s almost a rule of law that beneath the shiny, shellacked veneer of fun and good times, glitz and glamor, there lies a seedy underbelly. [Read More…]
Being Martha Plimpton as Monica in 200 Cigarettes
Martha Plimpton is known for few film roles beyond that of Stef Steinbrenner in The Goonies, later transitioning more primarily to theater and Broadway work and [Read More…]
Why Jennifer’s Body Deserves More Credit As A Halloween Movie (& In General)
In 2009, the world, pop culturally, was feeling a little more radical. The U.S. had just come out from under what it previously thought was [Read More…]
