HairBrained | Review
School Ties: Kent’s Latest Film Doesn’t Make the Grade If you’re at all familiar with director Billy Kent’s previous film, 2006’s The Oh in Ohio, then his latest effort, HairBrained, will seem like an...
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Bird is the Word: Meyer’s Debut a Well Meaning But Slight Observation Bird watching seems to be something of a recent cinematic inspiration, though has yet to show much potential in the narrative realm...
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Inherit the Wind: Aster Conjures a Horror Classic with Masterful Debut For those familiar with director Ari Aster’s body of short films, beginning with his now infamous cult favorite, 2011’s “There’s...
View ArticleTop 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #17. Cory...
Bad Education Moving from a brilliant dark comedy (Thoroughbreds) off campus mind-games to shark infested waters of the high school experience, for Cory Finley‘s sophomore feature he lines up a...
View ArticleHuman Capital (2020) | Review
It’s Easier for a Camel…: Meyers and Moverman Craft Serviceable, Familiar Remake Although it pulls no punches in its re-working of Paolo Virzi’s 2013 title Human Capital, this English language rehash...
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Opiate of the Masses: Klein Mines Comfort in Crises with Somber Addiction Odyssey The trauma of substance abuse and addiction has carved out a whole subgenre of cinema, once the bastion of studio star...
View Article2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Sarnoski’s Pig
In early 2020, Neon purchased the rights to Gunda (the docu film) and Pig which had completed production in late December of 2019. Continue reading...
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