Movie Review: Upstream Color
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/(Botanist?) Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is almost the opposite of his Sundance breakthrough, Primer. The latter is a verbose overly plot driven low-budget thriller about …
Drama
Movie Review: Lawless
Lawless, if you let it, will catch you off guard with just how compelling it actually is. It doesn’t quite reach the highs of the …
Movie Review: Spring Breakers
A little titillation never hurt anyone, right? Well the message of Spring Breakers is actually, it does hurt. Brilliantly crafted for the millennials, Writer/Director Harmony …
Movie Review: The Place Beyond the Pines
Schenectady (NY) translates to the Place Beyond the Pines. Using the gritty rural setting as the movie’s backdrop, director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine) weaves a …
Movie Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Where are the stereotypes? The Perks of Being a Wallflower modernizes the high school film through wallflowers: outsiders that are ok with that fact. Book/Movie …
Movie Review: Sleepwalk With Me
Mike Birbiglia has been hanging around the elite of the comedy world without ever becoming a household name. His style is pretty carefree and based …
Movie Review: Liberal Arts
If someone is lucky enough to experience college, Liberal Arts will either be a pleasant memory or a painful regret of what was. Writer/Director/Star Josh …
Movie Review: Amour
Love means never having to say you’re sorry. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Love is …
Movie Review: Arbitrage
Richard Gere is one of those actors who tends to play second fiddle to someone else, but in really good or high-profile movies. Audiences probably …
Movie Review: This Is 40
This Is 40 has been marketed as the everyman’s movie about what it truly is like to be 40 years old in the US, complete …