While we have a better range of choices for our gay love stories, and there are ground-breaking movies and television shows coming out every day, God’s Own Country feels more significant than anything I have seen in a long time.
While we have a better range of choices for our gay love stories, and there are ground-breaking movies and television shows coming out every day, God’s Own Country feels more significant than anything I have seen in a long time.
While I enjoyed the puzzle aspect of the film, I would not say that it is at all scary, gory, or weird. It’s barely horror. It’s a PG-13 film that works more as a mystery thriller, that pays homage to Groundhog Day and Sixteen Candles, than it is a slasher film.
Okay, let’s address the elephant in the room, shall we: Yes, Nick Cage does have many amazing Nick Cage high level freakouts, and they had me belly laughing in the theater. I’m talking blood, drugs, fire, decapitation, gore, the works!
When I first saw Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing I was greatly affected, not just because it is a cinematic masterpiece of epic proportions, but because it said something broader about the world at large.. Lee handles the subject matter of racial tension in a thoughtful and powerful way in all of his films, but I bring up the 1989 classic because it changed my life for the better.
There are almost too many similarities between these two films to list, but here goes: Both were produced and released by MGM, both were made in the fifties, both were musicals, and both feature women who performed with the Ziegfield Follies…
This review is for all the people who were burned by Jennifer’s Body: I know you’re scared to trust again. Maybe you thought it would be more like Juno, but full of lesbian scenes, and instead it was weird and exploitative. I know you aren’t ready to come back into the fold.
What I most want to get across in this review is that I felt that the story contained real truths about lives that are often diminished by society at large. Between the life or death madcap adventures and evasion of the police, there are real moments of mom angst and frustration that come across as nakedly real.
I’m not going to mince words on this one: this was a grueling film watching experience and it has left me dazed. How, in this day and age, are we still allowing such obviously bad and irrelevant films to be made?
The current trend of coming-of-age LGBT teen comedies is creating real and relevant change for millennial teens, and it does my heart good. In the same vein as the recent release Love, Simon, the story focuses on the point-of-view of a closeted teenager.
Set in both Los Angeles and the main character’s hometown of Austin, Mr. Roosevelt proves to be endearing, honest, and fixedly personal in a really invigorating way.
Kirby Dick is probably one of my favorite documentarians thanks to his work on films such as This Film is Not Yet Rated, The Invisible War, and The Hunting Ground.
This is also a film about American upward mobility, and what it is to be American; since it is also talking about Wallace’s Infinite Jest. For those who love Wallace this is essential viewing, and a good precursor for anyone who toes the line between brushing off huge works and diving into them head first.
This film is written by and starring Mark Duplass in one of his most devastatingly raw performances to date. Sarah Paulson co-stars in an equally amazing capacity, and the director is newcomer (and former cameraman) Alex Lehmann. Small in scope, but brutally honest about the depth of young love, this is a film that deserves all the adoration it has gotten.
Again, the story is a simple one: Man is drifting away from wife and child, man wants something new, man recognizes someone new, man tries to see where it goes, and it bites him in the ass. Again, this story is framed by the condition Fregoli delusion, which is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise.
Few people know just how ridiculously cursed The Beach Boys were. Whether you’re looking at their histories of drug use, domestic abuse, drummer Dennis Wilson’s connection to the Manson murders, or the events of Brian Wilson’s life, the band undoubtedly had it rough.
James C. Strouse is swiftly becoming one of my favorite indie directors and writers with the inclusion of this Jessica Williams star vehicle. She previously starred in his 2015 film People, Places, Things where she played a talented student in a graphic writing class. In this film she is the principle character, and my goodness, does she shine through in all her exquisiteness.
This concept is automatically interesting and is in line with a burgeoning trend in horror filmmaking. Much like last year’s Don’t Breathe, this is a story that starts with the victimization of a helpless individual, but the narrative swings around quickly when their true identity is revealed.
Eddie Mannix is a complicated historical figure who becomes increasingly interesting as you learn more about his life. Several films have tried to encapsulate and explain his role with MGM, as a general manager and comptroller, but it’s difficult. To come out and say what he did, and to who, and why, is still tricky business, even if his reign ended some fifty years ago with his 1963 death.
Money Monster is a swift and calculated thriller that stars the always dependable George Clooney and Julia Roberts, as they deal with a hostage situation on live television that begets the unravelling of a mass conspiracy, all in a lean 98 minute runtime.
