The Weight of Success is mostly a missed opportunity to explore the important topic of whether or not life coaching and/or psychology work and the more important topic of whether… Continue reading "The Weight of Success (Silverstein, 2018)"
Saroo Brierly’s memoir, A Long Way Home, is not a text that would seemingly be easy to adapt to a traditional, narrative film. It covers nearly thirty years. While the… Continue reading "3 Screenshots: Lion"
Unfortunately, in order to drive the film to the expected ringside confrontations, Creed II erases much of the nuanced character development of the original.
Ian has cerebral palsy.
Keira Knightley’s performance as Sugar Plum in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is probably my favorite camp performance since Johnny Depp introduced us all to Captain Sparrow. Whether she… Continue reading "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Hallstrom and Johnston)"
Shout Factory's Blu-ray Collector's Edition is worth the purchase for the extras alone.
On principle, Liyana is a film I ought to love and not just like.
Nina (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) might be described as an angrier, more messed up version of Amy in Trainwreck. In the first few scenes of the movie, she comes off stage… Continue reading "All About Nina (Vives, 2018)"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the harrowing, autobiographically inspired story of a woman suffering from postpartum depression who is confined against her will and whose “treatment” drives her… Continue reading "Boy Erased (Edgerton, 2018)"
Movie lovers at Chapel Hill’s Filmfest 919 got an early look at Destroyer , a crime drama sure to generate awards buzz for the barely recognizable Nicole Kidman, who plays… Continue reading "Destroyer (Kusama, 2018)"
