SXSW 2015 — Unfriended
A group of cyber friends are terrorized by an anonymous user who may be the ghost of a young woman who committed suicide after they bullied her.
Author: kenmorefield
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A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005) — Ten Years Later
Well, I feel as though I understand the film a little better than I did ten years ago. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that I like it any better.
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UnDivided (Martin, 2013)
"The best way to convince people you don't have an agenda is to not have an agenda."
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Madden, 2015)
It's clear that when beloved matriarch figure Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) describes hotel entrepreneur Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (★★★) is attempting to write its own review. Sonny, she observes in a moment of droll understatement, gets a lot of things wrong...but never when it matters most. When he gets things right, it is a sight to behold.
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The Widowmaker (Forbes, 2015)
We are told at the beginning of The Widowmaker, Patrick Forbes's slow but efficient documentary, that more Americans (600,000) die from heart attacks each year than from all forms of cancer combined.
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Coming Soon: Bite Size, Libera in America
Young people tend to be one of the more stereotyped groups in fiction films, so I tend to be attentive to documentaries about them
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Out of the Dark (Quílez, 2014)
Either Out of the Dark had the misfortune to be released too soon in the wake of The Babadook or--more likely--horror films in general are a bit too formulaic for my taste.
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From the Vault: Shaft (Singleton, 2000)
Shaft is still a ladies man, but the promiscuity that was a staple of the 70s film has given way to a flirting almost, dare I say it, indifference. It seems as though the AIDS epidemic has helped turn pop culture epitomes of masculinity towards the stylish object of desire and away from the prowling sexual agent.
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New and Noteworthy: The Mendoza Line, Running Wild, The Widowers, Bluebird
Capsule reviews of The Mendoza Line, The Widowers, Running Wild, and Bluebird
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The Theory of Everything (Marsh, 2014)
A heartbreaking work of super-duper-staggering genius.