Category: Film
In Common Parlance, Tim Burton Returns to Peculiar Form With Miss Peregrine
“Ever felt like nothing you do matters?” For Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield), this question is one that weighs heavily as he spends his days in [Read More…]
The Stooges Still Don’t Give A Fuck in Gimme Danger
The 60s in Ann Arbor, Michigan set the ideal tone of rebellion for Jim Osterberg a.k.a. Iggy Pop to wash away the California-infused hippie dippy vibes [Read More…]
Destroy Everything You Touch: White Girl
What is a white girl, if not a daft ninny to be mocked and used as nothing more than an orifice? It’s an examination of [Read More…]
Give Me Time To Realize Alexis Arquette’s Crime
The plight of being trans is difficult enough as a civilian, but add to it a touch of celebrity and the challenges augment tenfold. For [Read More…]
War Dogs a.k.a. Todd Phillips Keeps Trying To Remake The Hangover
Todd Phillips has a problem. The kind that might be akin to something like having Michael Bay Syndrome. Perhaps appropriately born in Dix Hills, New York, [Read More…]
Mothers and Daughters: Predictably Cheesy
A straight male director might not be the best choice for the person to helm a film about the nature of relationships between mothers and [Read More…]
XOXO: We Found Love in a Hopeless Rave
The rave movie as a genre isn’t exactly as robust as perhaps it should be. Then again, it’s not necessarily easy to continuously reinvent a [Read More…]
Holly Golightly Syndrome Pervades Complete Unknown
What is it about staying in one place–relegated to one life–that drives so many people crazy? Joshua Marston, best known for his 2004 film, Maria [Read More…]
Who Can Take the Sunrise And Sprinkle It With Dew?
For someone whose most iconic character was a curmudgeon with an underlying heart of gold, Gene Wilder (or, to select parties, Jerome Silberman) himself was a [Read More…]
Mia Madre Blends Elements of Waking Life With The Seventh Seal
Nanni Moretti’s storied career in film has perhaps, at long last reached its pinnacle with his latest, Mia Madre, an often emotional glimpse into the [Read More…]
