One of the most audacious films of the year might also be one of the most nominated this season. Director today, auteur tomorrow, Yorgos Lanthimos, has a reputation for pushing the envelope in his cinematic choices with what the audience can and will accept. “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” “The Lobster,” and “The Favourite” […]
An admirable feat of artistic production, The World to Come takes us on an unexpected journey through two marriages in the 19thCentury full of grief and ineptitude lit up by an uncommon love. The two couples live on isolated farms in New York. We first meet Abigale (Waterston) and Dyer (Affleck) who live a seemingly ideal life on a
In a rather tangled two-part plot, writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine explores some version of the “life imitates art” juxtaposition. To illustrate his point he uses a recurring image of the main character in a meditative position surrounded by nature. The first scenario is presented with certain actors in certain roles followed by those same actors and characters
Do we really need another film about NASA’s extraordinary first journey to the moon? It turns out we do. However, the inventive Oscar-winning director behind Whiplash and La La Land delivers something unexpected with First Man. Damian Chazelle’s glimpse into the life and mind of Neil Armstrong is an intimate look at loss and suffering.
Over the past weekend distributor A24 released their deceptively marketed It Comes at Night. The sophomore film from Houston born director Trey Edward Shults whose directorial effort Krisha won both the audience and grand jury prize at SXSW in 2015 (but mainstream audiences never heard of). This film has a budget, Hollywood actors, marketed as
The title doesn’t seem to make much sense until you look at its acronym. Rare that we find a film concerning war with a female in the title. Even rarer that we find a war centered film that is also part comedy. “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is the first time Tina Fey (“This is Where I
I can appreciate what writer/director Josh Mond was trying to accomplish with his little film James White. It’s actually the type of performance film that offers an upcoming actor like Abbott (A Most Violent Year, All That I Am) a role to cut his teeth on.