For a time, Jennifer Brea had a near-perfect life. At 25 years old she was a PhD student at Princeton and married to the man of her dreams, internet analyst and social networking pioneer Omar Wasow. B…
Movie Review: Elizabeth Blue
As someone who’s struggled with and been institutionalized for mental illness, I can say with some authority that the most infuriating part Vincent Sabella’s Elizabeth Blue is how much it gets right. …
Movie Review: Thirst Street
If nothing else comes from Nathan Silver’s Thirst Street, a thoroughly bonkers erotic thriller that seems deliberately tone-deaf and jarring in much the same manner as Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon …
Movie Review : Motherland
It looks less like a hospital than a production line. Rows of stone-faced women endure contractions in silence as they wait to be processed by overworked receptionists. They’re soon wheeled into giant…
Movie Review: El Futuro Perfecto
Clocking in at barely over an hour, Nele Wholatz’s debut feature film El Futuro Perfecto is that increasingly rare export from the Locarno Film Festival: an introspective art film both intellectually …
Movie Review : Kissing Candice
It seems oddly appropriate that director Aoife McArdle began her career making music videos and commercials, as her debut feature film Kissing Candice feels like the product of a creator long accustom…
Movie Review: The Limehouse Golem
Much like the Victorian audiences who attended the music hall burlesques, or “shockers,” audiences who watch Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem know exactly what they’re in store for. Violence, …