Category: Theatrical Review
Having a mental illness can often seem like living in the midst of a waking nightmare. You can’t always trust what you see, hear, or think. And the few things that would seem to provide stability are often those that...
Self-documentation and broadcast is so commonplace now that describing Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Spree as a “found footage” movie is like calling your phone a “cellphone.” It’s a vestigial term that marks the speaker as a remnant of a time when the...
Every year since 1954, jazz lovers have gathered in Newport Rhode Island for the Newport Jazz Festival, with the exception of 2020 and the nine years the event was located in New York. Meanwhile, every America’s Cup yacht race from...
Hans Petter Moland’s Out Stealing Horses (adapted by the director from the novel by Per Petterson) is a pastoral coming of age story. Therefore, it’s light on the superficial whizbangery you might see described as “spectacle.” But Moland is a...
A silhouetted figure stands before a sinister red light projecting the horrifyingly long shadow of the horned and monstrous devil itself. Meanwhile, our assumed protagonist sits tied to a chair, forced to look on in hopelessness as the manifestation of...
As director résumés go, “from the cinematographer of The Disaster Artist” is not going to get moved to the top of the pile. Though not without merit, that movie’s look was of a feature length Funny or Die video. Director...
It may only be Amy Seimetz’s second feature directorial effort but she’s been around long enough–producing, writing and acting in great movies–that she’s able to gather an all-star cast of cool kids for her thrillingly metaphysical, depressingly hilarious She Dies...
Have you ever seen an advertisement for a movie and thought to yourself, “There’s no way this thing actually exists”? Not because it sounds especially crazy or anything like that, but because it seems so lame that you can’t imagine...
Psychomagic is both the name of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s new documentary and the name of the loosely defined, post-new age, psuedo-scientific art therapy method he has invented and for the advocacy of which he directed this documentary. That means that, yes,...
For English-speaking fans of director Ciro Guerra, the release of Waiting for the Barbarians is bittersweet. His first English language film, which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is coming out on the heels of numerous accusations of sexual...
