Category: Film
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…]
The Edge of Seventeen Often Feels Like The Edge of Thirty, Forty & Beyond
Billed essentially as the teen movie that’s been missing in our lives since Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman brought us 2007’s Juno, Kelly Fremon Craig’s The [Read More…]
L’amour Nocturne: Love is Dark as Night in Nocturnal Animals
“If you love someone, you work it out. You don’t just throw it away. You have to be very careful with it–you might not find [Read More…]
Suffocating/Drowning in Estrogen: The Love Witch
Pop culture has been rather attuned to certain gender-related events of late–chiefly, Hillary not getting elected. Anna Biller’s sixth film, The Love Witch (a triumph [Read More…]
Some Like It Hot & Married to the Mob: Correlations
With Swing Shift and Something Wild, director Jonathan Demme established himself as a comedic force to be reckoned with in the 80s, much of his [Read More…]
Is Loving Worth It (Both Filmically and Literally)?
As the ominous force known as Donald Trump’s presidency approaches, Jeff Nichols’ Loving comes at a time when we need to be reminded just how far [Read More…]
