With the national election less three months away, I'd be lying if I said I didn't spend some portion of every day saying a silent prayer (to whom, I'm not exactly sure) that things don't get any worse than they already are before our struggling democracy can do what it does best and reconfigure the ...
Archives for July 2020
Review: I Used to Go Here
The last we saw Kris Rey as writer/director (she had a small on-screen role in Damien Chazelle's First Man last year), she delivered Unexpected, a sweetly thoughtful exploration of motherhood in its many forms. She returns five years later with I Used To Go Here, another exploration of the ...
Review: Amulet
Like the other horror film released this week (The Rental, reviewed here), Romola Garai's Amulet aspires to something impressive within contemporary genre features. It is a gorgeous production (making her feature directorial debut, Garai hits a home run with cinematographer Laura ...
Review: The Rental
Two horror movies arrive to watch this week, and both of them feel as though they're aiming for something grander than what the final product actually delivers. Both are by actors turned filmmakers, and both owe a lot to the genre films that came before them, genre films that ultimately do better ...
Review: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Something weird happens at the beginning of Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, but it's so subtle, so smoothly incorporated that it's nearly imperceptible. Following the opening credits (displayed in a throwback fashion in cards at the front of the film), we find our way into The Roaring '20s, a dive ...