To read more coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, go here. Eating disorders can be a difficult subject for movies. Problems that mostly pertain to women don’t seem to be taken as seriously in general, and this is an…
Sundance 2017 Review: Person to Person
To read more coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, go here. It’s rather hard to be cavalier about someone else’s problems when they take them so seriously and so personally. Oh wait, no it isn’t. Especially when they’re the…
Sundance 2017 Review: City of Ghosts
To read more coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, go here. City of Ghosts was always going to be an achingly relevant plea for help and compassion in today’s world, but recent events have made it more urgent than…
Sundance 2017 Review: I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
To read more coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, go here Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) is a nursing assistant having a bad day in the depressingly hilarious Netflix offering I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. We have…
Sundance 2017 Movie Review: Axolotl Overkill
Ain’t no nihilism like German nihilism, cuz German nihilism don’t stop! Did that sound like a protest slogan? Well, it’s been a long weekend of them. Perhaps it’s also a reaction against Axolotl Overkill, which, much like its 16-year-old anti-heroine,…
10 Women Who Deserve Their Own Biopics
The release of Hidden Figures, which tells the untold story of the African-American women who literally helped NASA put men on the moon, gets me thinking. Namely, about the countless number of women who also achieved great things, but nevertheless haven’t…
TV Review: Captive, a Netflix Docuseries
Don’t watch the Netflix documentary series Captive to learn what you could do to avoid the situations its subjects find themselves in. The only agenda Captive has is to tell as much of the story it can, with testimony from as many…
