Movie Review: The Secret Scripture

Buried far, far beneath the empty hubris and soapy melodrama of the thin plot in…

Movie Review: The Foreigner

I grew up on Jackie Chan’s American buddy movies. They may run the gamut of…

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Author and essayist Joan Didion was first introduced to writing through her mother, who presented…

Movie Review: Super Dark Times

Some movies have the ability to grab your attention with one form of advertisement. It…

Movie Review: Goodbye Christopher Robin

The intense emotion that Goodbye Christopher Robin evokes is hard to capture in words. There…

VIFF Review: BPM (Beats Per Minute)

To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. In the electric first half of BPM (Beats…

VIFF Review: A Fantastic Woman

To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. In the ever growing yet still somewhat scanty…