Blackfish (Cowperthwaite, 2013)
While I never quite felt like I was watching a snuff film, I could also never shake the suspicion that I might soon be.
While I never quite felt like I was watching a snuff film, I could also never shake the suspicion that I might soon be.
This movie isn't that bad. The acting is, but the plot isn't.
It's hard to combine reality television with church.
It's not surprising, then, to find the film is about antisemitism. What was surprising to me was how fresh it managed to be even while dealing with a subject that is as old as Western civilization.
College—it’s Luz Garcia’s dream—it’s her only way of escaping the big trouble of her small town.
It’s hard to know which element of Shepard & Dark is the most refreshingly quaint: the male friendship, the commitment to letter writing, or the quiet quality of its emotional… Continue reading "Shepard & Dark (Wurmfeld, 2012)"
If you’re looking for answers as to who Brandon Darby really is, or what the motivations behind his turning in two young men suspected of planning to bomb the Republican National Convention really were, then this movie will not be a profitable use of time.
With a name like Jewtopia, I thought the movie would be mainly about a Jewish family. But it isn’t.
"Do you feel safer?"
If you are a straight male of a certain age, Vito Russo’s book, The Celluloid Closet, may well have been your first introduction to … not gay people, exactly, but… Continue reading "Vito (Schwarz, 2011)"