Category: Film
Reel Talk With Matthew Conboy of Goodnight Brooklyn
Matthew Conboy is the director of Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death by Audio. As co-founder of the venue, his deeply personal documentary highlights the [Read More…]
About (A) Girl: A Movie That Re-Creates My-So Called Life for the Pacific Northwest
The pinnacle of what it meant to be a part of a certain music scene in the Pacific Northwest happened long before Girl, a 1998 [Read More…]
Goodnight to All That: Matthew Conboy’s Goodnight Brooklyn Puts Death by Audio to Bed for Good
It seems like whenever someone moves to New York and stays in it for even just three years, everything they knew to be good and [Read More…]
She’s A Twentieth Century Girl: Mike Mills’ Latest Picks Up Where Running With Scissors Left Off
Mike Mills has always slipped easily into the mindset of a teenage boy coming of age in an unconventional family. His film debut, Thumbsucker, back [Read More…]
Glimmers of Good Acting Don’t Make Up for the Fact That You Could Just Watch “National Anthem” Instead of Jackie
It’s the movie and performance no one can seem to stop talking about. Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in her aggrieved widow state is Oscar [Read More…]
Come Sail Away on a Wave of Heartache & Constant Regret: Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan began his directing career back in 2000, adapting his own play for You Can Count On Me. After beginning his second feature, Margaret, [Read More…]
Wes Anderson Infuses H&M With A Touch of The Darjeeling Limited
One supposes H&M has now reached that point where it doesn’t need to really advertise for the actual clothing it sells. It’s just far too [Read More…]
Such A Mean Old Man, Such A Dirty Old Man: Bad Santa 2
The sequel is rarely a one-up of its original, except in the case of The Godfather: Part II and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. But, at [Read More…]
Allied: Like if Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Inglourious Basterds Had a Baby
“French” Morocco, 1942. A man drops down in the middle of the desert by parachute, walks a while and gets into a car where he’s [Read More…]
In Another Country: “It Takes Courage For A Foreign Woman to Travel Alone”
In the endless arsenal of Isabelle Huppert movies, one of her most recent–from 2012–features, In Another Country, stands apart not just for how noticeably it [Read More…]
