Who was the Hollywood screenwriter, producer, or bigwig who saw Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol (2010)—a bruising, heart-breaking film about trauma —and thought yes, this will make a perfect dramedic fantasy crowd-pleaser. It boggles the mind and the reasoning bits of the…
‘Beautiful Boy’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Astonishes in Painful, Messy and True Story About Addiction
Early in Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, based on the best selling novels by David and Nic Sheff, David (Steve Carrell) is told that relapse is to be expected in addiction recovery – even thought of as one of the…
‘Beautiful Boy’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Astonishes in Painful, Messy and True Story About Addiction | TIFF 2018
Early in Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, based on the best selling novels by David and Nic Sheff, David (Steve Carrell) is told that relapse is to be expected in addiction recovery – even thought of as one of the…
Movie Review: Battle of the Sexes
Stop me if you’ve heard this story: A showboating misogynist whose antics are considered playful male banter goes up against a headstrong feminist who, in spite of her skills and intelligence is criticized for her appearance. It’d be easy to…
Interview: Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton
Directing duo Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton are the couple you want to talk to all day. In just fifteen minutes we conversed about millenial movie attendance, Judy Garland, and getting a sandwich board together to promote the film. The…
Movie Review: Despicable Me 3
I never thought I’d complain about a Despicable Me movie having too much plot. Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda’s latest entry in Universal Pictures’ unexpected franchise juggernaut feels less like a single movie than a jumble of half a dozen…
Ally’s Movie Review: Foxcatcher (2014)
Foxcatcher is so dreary, so haunting, that I didn’t process just how much I liked this film until moments before I started typing out this review. “Like” is a relative term here. I find myself hard-pressed to believe anyone could…