TIFF Journal: ‘Anomalisa’
It’s been a long, tough seven-year wait for Charlie Kaufman to follow up his directorial debut. There’s no one else out there who can match the morbid wit and surreal emotional honesty of the ‘Being John Malkovic...
It’s been a long, tough seven-year wait for Charlie Kaufman to follow up his directorial debut. There’s no one else out there who can match the morbid wit and surreal emotional honesty of the ‘Being John Malkovic...
With ‘I Smile Back’, Sarah Silverman joins the legion of comedians who have stripped away their funny to deliver a straight and dark performance that showcases the tears behind the smile.
In just a handful of movies including ‘Half Nelson’ and ‘Sugar’, co-writers/directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have established themselves as filmmakers dedicated to tales of fumbling outsiders. They appro...
Hey! Here’s a 2015 bio-pic about Hollywood overcoming adversity, so I guess we’re officially in awards season! Fortunately, this is actually a decent one thanks to a deft sense of humor from all involved. You just have...
With ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ and ‘Wild’, Montreal filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée has been on a hot streak of movie-star led character studies that conceal their crowd-pleasing, feel-good nature just long enough to...
As always, just when you think you’ve got a handle on where the hell you think director David Gordon Green is going in his career, he throws in another monkey wrench. After spending time in mainstream comedy following the st...
The tale of Boston crime lord James “Whitey” Bulger is so good that it’s surprising it took this long for someone to make a movie out of it… or at least an official bio-pic anyway. Martin Scorsese flavored his ...
‘Good Kill‘ might have been the first of an inevitable trend of drone warfare movies, but ‘Eye in the Sky’ qualifies as the first actually worth seeking out. Even though director Gavin Hood (‘X-Men Or...
Writer/director Jeremy Saulnier’s thriller ‘Blue Ruin‘ took off above and beyond anyone’s expectations after a festival run a few years ago. Award-winning and one of the first VOD hits (in as much as that...
‘The Final Girls’ proves that a clever premise can only get you so far. The movie promises to be delightful pisstake on ’80s slasher movies with ideas pulled from ‘Last Action Hero’ (don’t worry...
Move over ‘Birdman’, there’s a new one-take wonder in town. Filmed in three tries on three different nights in Berlin (according to legend, the third was the charm, if you were wondering), Sebastian Schipper̵...
There’s no real way to prepare yourself for Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest oddball odyssey ‘The Lobster’, with the possible exception of a familiarity with the director’s previous works ‘DogtoothR...