Dona Bárbara’s house is a house of rules—rules which her steadfast maid and nanny Val (Regina Casé) eagerly keeps. Val navigates the unspoken taboos endemic to upper-class São Paulo households in an exhaustive lower-class ballet: Val may enter the dining…
Movie Review: ‘Chloe & Theo’
[Spoilers Ahead] In the interest of being as succinct as possible, Ezna Sands’ Chloe & Theo can be summarized thusly: an Arctic Inuit named Theo (Theo Ikummaq) travels to New York City and teams up homeless drifter Chloe (Dakota Johnson)…
Movie Review: ‘Some Kind of Hate’
[Spoilers Ahead] Earlier this year, online video gaming service Steam Greenlight released Hatred, an isometric third-person shooter about a violent sociopath whose only goal is to massacre as many innocent people before being killed by the authorities. Garnering immediate controversy…
Movie Review: ‘Return to Sender’
So, has Rosamund Pike just been doomed to play nothing but psycho-bitches for the rest of her career? Why? Is it her sharp, angular facial structure? Certainly this isn’t enough to mark her as the next Dyanne Thorne. But it…
Movie Review: ‘Ten Thousand Saints’
In this age of mumblecore supremacy and HBO hipsterdom, indie dramas about young men coming of age are a dime a dozen. It seems that all up-and-coming filmmakers have to do nowadays to get their projects funded and shown at…
Movie Review: ‘Dirty Weekend’
I spent the majority of Neil LaBute’s Dirty Weekend with my glasses pushed up to my forehead and my thumb and forefinger crammed into my eye sockets. Recently cringe comedy has dominated large swaths of American media: Steve Carell’s antics…
Movie Review: ‘6 Ways to Die’
[Minor Spoilers Ahead] Right up until its ending, I was ready to proclaim Nadeem Soumah’s 6 Ways to Die (2015) as one of the surprise hits of the summer. Soumah crafted a mesmeric thriller that takes stylistic cues from 80s…
