Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: The Father Brings an Emotional and Stirring Story to Screen with Heartrending Results

The Father

It’s not always easy to adapt for the screen a work originally written for the stage, and the degree to which any such adaptation is successful relies on both the […]

Lisa Trifone /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Castle in the Ground Explores Lives Intertwined in the Early Days of the Opioid Crisis

Castle in the Ground

One of the many films slated for this year’s cancelled SXSW Film Festival (although the film had its official premiere at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival) was writer/director Joey Klein’s […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: A Dystopian Trip to Adulthood in Weirdly Unnerving Vivarium

vivarium

While I’ve never been a fan of weird for weirdness’s sake, I do tend to enjoy it when there’s a touch of mischief—or even a dark streak—running through it. In […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Absurd, Intense The Art of Self-Defense Skewers Toxic Masculinity

Art of Self-Defense

Jesse Eisenberg has made a name for himself playing tightly wound, neurotic types, from future media moguls (as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network) to unsuspecting zombie fighters (as Columbus in Zombieland […]

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