Look out, here comes a Steven Spielberg movie starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks about the value of journalism challenging government and the struggle women face in a man’s world. It’s also a period piece and based on...
Hearing that a new coming-of-age story will hit screens is the indie/awards season version of the announcement of a new comic book blockbuster. It’s inevitable that a handful of these will be released every year, and it̵...
‘The Lovers’ is a strange and possibly ironically titled bleak comedy about marital discontent. It takes a premise that feels quite familiar and twists it in such a strange fashion that it comes off as romantic in the ...
The name Christine Chubbuck may be known mainly to those with the most morbid of curiosities. Chubbuck was a news reporter for a small Florida TV station in the 1970s who became so fed up with her station’s “If it blee...
Growing up is tough. It’s so haaaaaard to come of age. Now, imagine trying to come of age in the unenlightened and repressive decade of the 1950s. Whoo-boy! That ain’t easy, folks.
Writer/director Todd Solondz is an acquired taste, but for those who’ve developed the buds for his particular brand of empathetic misery comedy, there are few filmmakers today more fascinating.
