For the longest time, whenever I'd sit back and think about what a dream job might look like, it always included one thing: attending film festivals. From the moment I stumbled into one in Indianapolis over a decade ago, I was smitten. Lots of movies? In one place? With all kinds of other people who ...
Archives for August 2018
Review: Minding The Gap
Into an already very strong year of documentaries (Three Identical Strangers, RBG, Won't You Be My Neighbor?) comes a powerful, poignant observation on family, masculinity and coming of age, Minding the Gap. The first feature film from Bing Liu and produced by Chicago's own Kartemquin, Minding the ...
Review: Madeline’s Madeline
Teenage girls are having a moment on screen, from Elsie Fisher's beautifully real turn as a middle schooler in Eighth Grade to Kiersey Clemmons as a college-bound musician in Hearts Beat Loud to Chloe Grace Moretz in the upcoming Sundance Film Festival award winner The Miseducation of ...
Review: Puzzle
This is a crosspost with Third Coast Review. Based on the synopsis alone—a housewife discovers she has a talent for solving jigsaw puzzles and enters a competition—you'd be forgiven for thinking that Puzzle, directed by Marc Turteltaub, is a quirky, wholesome competition film that fits in ...
A Desk Here, A Desk There
I recently bumped into an intern I used to work with, and she mentioned that she'd since moved on to a job at DeskPass. A new-ish concept in co-working, it's sort of like the ClassPass for shared work spaces. Instead of a variety of workout classes to choose from, you get access to co-working ...