She had an intimate relationship with music, like it was a person...she would die for it. In ten or twenty years, my kid siblings may come across Amy, the new documentary that chronicles Amy Winehouse's meteoric rise to fame in the first years of the millennium, and watch it much the way I recently ...
The Indie in the Blockbuster
Like Lincoln last year and [insert period drama here] before that, 12 Years A Slave has been an anticipated film for months and is expected to make quite a sweep come awards season. And like anyone keeping track of these things, 12 Years A Slave was on my list of films to see as soon as the ...
Life in 179 minutes
If you've heard of Blue is the Warmest Color at all, you've heard that it features a fairly explicit sex scene between our protagonist and her first girlfriend. If you've heard a little more about Blue, you've heard that the director and his actresses have been feuding in the awesome way Europeans ...
An indie from Austin
I'd heard rumblings about this great little film, something called Short Term 12 - but what a curious title. And what could I really expect of it? Having made its debut at SXSW instead of Sundance, it was one of this year's slate of indies I wasn't too terribly familiar with. But little by ...
Documentary Times Three
It's been a bit since I've been to the movies. Like, a week and half or something? Which is forever in my world. But I went to a whole handful of flicks in very quick succession for a week or so...so I guess it evens out. And now, I'm finally posting about what I saw. Let's call it better late ...