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Sundance Journal: Luce

Jason Gorber — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:00:24 +0000

It’s rare to see a film so courageous as Luce. The movie demands a lot from its audience. It mercilessly refuses to be easily constrained, consistently undermines conventions and expectations, and delves deeply into moral uncertainty. Like other Sundance selections including Get Out and Sorry to Bother You, Luce is a powerful examination of the...

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‘The Glass Castle’ Review: Captain Not So Fantastic

Philip Brown — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:00:36 +0000

‘The Glass Castle’ is a nice movie that means well and has ambition. It’s also such a naked attempt at awards-grabbing self-importance that it’s hard to take as seriously as the filmmakers desire. The summer might not be over, but this is the first mediocre Oscar-bait release of prestige movie season. Brie Larson stars as...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.10 Recap: “This Calls for Another Donut”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:00:04 +0000

As the ‘Twin Peaks’ pendulum swings wildly from one extreme to another, this week’s episode focuses heavily on the type of David Lynchian quirky comedy that has been in short supply through most of this revival series. It also spends way more screen time in Twin Peaks itself than previous episodes. The episode sort-of addresses...

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‘The Book of Henry’ Review: Well, At Least It’s Different

Philip Brown — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 18:00:15 +0000

For better or worse, ‘The Book of Henry’ is definitely a project that Colin Trevorrow was able to make without studio interference. Produced between the box office success of ‘Jurassic World’ and his upcoming chapter in the latest ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, the director’s sudden clout allowed him to sneak a weird script through the studio...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.05 Recap: “Off in Dreamland Again, Huh?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:00:18 +0000

The latest entry in Showtime’s ‘Twin Peaks’ revival is less an “episode” in the normal sense of how episodic television works, than a collection of incidents that (presumably) happen to take place around the same time as one another. As an hour of television, it has no clear goal or structure or narrative of its...

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‘Chuck’ (2017) Review: Real Rocky’s Rockier Road

Philip Brown — Fri, 26 May 2017 16:00:10 +0000

Countless hard luck boxing dramas have been released since ‘Rocky’ and most aren’t worth the pain of suffering through. ‘Chuck’ is the latest and thankfully proves to be an exception to the rule. The reason? Well, it’s about Chuck Wepner, the man that Stallone allegedly based ‘Rocky’ on, and it’s as much about the awkward...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.03 & 3.04 Recaps: “It’s Not About the Bunny”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 24 May 2017 12:00:42 +0000

In addition to the two-hour premiere, Showtime has also made the following two episodes of ‘Twin Peaks’ available early via On-Demand. Assuming you weren’t turned off by the premiere enough to give up, these two are a decided improvement, especially Episode 4. Of course, an argument can be made that taking nearly four hours to...

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‘3 Generations’ Review: Manipulative Times Three

Philip Brown — Fri, 05 May 2017 15:00:18 +0000

‘3 Generations’ played at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 under the title ‘About Ray’ with a planned release just days after its premiere. It was pulled and now it’s being reluctantly released opposite a Marvel blockbuster to quietly disappear and die a death the Weinsteins decided it deserved long ago. Watching the trans...

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TIFF Journal: ‘The Bleeder’

Philip Brown — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:00:36 +0000

Hey, you know those movies about boxers whose lives are just as tumultuous outside the ring as they are within? ‘The Bleeder’ is one of those. It’s even based on a true story to theoretically maximize the hanky-soaking, teary-eyed potential of the piece. However, this one is thankfully far more entertaining than most movies of...

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‘Demolition’ Review: Good Grief

Philip Brown — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:00:49 +0000

Grief and movies don’t tend to go particularly well together. That’s not to say that the depressingly universal emotion is unworthy of cinematic study. However, more often than not, grief is treated in one of two ways in movies. Either it’s depicted as a lot of sullen starring into the blackness – often by a...

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‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’ Review: Mediocrity Minus an Ending

Philip Brown — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:00:36 +0000

The second ‘Divergent’ movie made slightly more money than the first in the global market, so now we have a third chapter. The main knock against the series thus far is that it feels rather redundant to ‘The Hunger Games’, and whoo-boy that sure hasn’t changed! If fact, now that the whole “faction” concept has...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Demolition’

Philip Brown — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:00:14 +0000

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 feel like art films for a while. His latest movie ‘Demolition’ is very much in that mold, teaming up with Jake Gyllenhaal to deliver...

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