Review: ‘Eternal Beauty’Sally Hawkins Shines In Craig Roberts' Film About Mental Illness
Films portraying mental illness (especially when depicted by someone considered “normal”) is always a slippery slope. Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder captivated in the most...
Review: ‘Save Yourselves!’A Hilarious Alien Invasion Comedy That Needs To Be On Your Radar
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival. Save Yourselves! opens in theaters October 2nd and digital October 6th.*
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Review: ‘A Call To Spy’Female Spies Fight For Liberty In An Admirable WWII Thriller...
In 2016, Sarah Megan Thomas produced and starred in Equity, a financial thriller that showed the cutthroat world of Wall Street from a financial...
Review: ‘The Glorias’Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem Biopic Is Uneven But Engaging
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
Life’s road is jagged, never a straight line. That’s especially true for...
Review: ‘The Artist’s Wife’Lena Olin Leads Bruce Dern In A Radiant Performance
A good performance can save a movie. A great performance can make a movie seem better than it was. Lena Olin in The Artist's...
Review: ‘Kajillionaire’Evan Rachel Wood Leads Miranda July's Layered Grifter Comedy
There’s a saying that money can’t solve your problems, but it sure does help. The new film Kajillionaire from director Miranda July, follows a...
Review: ‘Foster Boy’The Shaquille O’Neal Produced Legal Drama Tackles Private Foster Care
“Too many foster kids are scared, neglected, lonely, and abused” - Shaquille O’Neal
Screenwriter Jay Paul Deratany spent most of his career as a lawyer...
Review: ‘Blackbird’Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, And Mia Wasikowska Lead A Trite End-Of-Life Dramedy
Family get-togethers, particularly around the holidays, can lead only to an equal amount of nostalgia and squabbling. That's just the way these things go...
Review: ‘Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story’This Closer Look At Women In The Stunt Industry...
While the Academy of Motion Pictures has made recent changes in categories and requirements to win an Oscar, it has received ample criticism for...
Review: ‘The Swerve’A Withering, Devastating Look At A Mother's Decline Into Madness
I've been left a little bit stunned by The Swerve, Dean Kapsalis' feature debut and a shocking, heartbreaking look at a mother's spiral into...