Packed to the brim with wall-to-wall jokes and witty one-liners, a heartfelt premise and performances bursting with chemistry, the Clea Duvall directed Happiest Season is a welcome addition to th…
Bojack Horseman Review: A melancholy and fitting end
“Life’s a bitch and then you die, right?” Sometimes our endings aren’t endings. Instead, as is the case in the sixth and final season of the tremendous Bojack Horseman, they’re bookmarks placed in a s…
Movie Review: The Disaster Artist
I’ve had some very uncomfortable moments in my life. There was the time in the first grade where I had a crush on a girl and so I got her a flower. As I was mentally planning out our life togeth…
TIFF Review: The Disaster Artist
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. I’ve had some very uncomfortable moments in my life. There was the time in the first grade where I had a crush on a girl and so I got her a flower. A…
TV Review: G.L.O.W. Season 1
If nothing else, Netflix’s G.L.O.W. has contributed to the popular culture one tremendous performance. I speak, of course, of Marc Maron as Sam Sylvia, the sleazy sexploitation B-movie director at the…
IFF Boston Review: Lemon
The brilliance of Janicza Bravo’s Lemon is clear juxtaposed against another IFF Boston pick – the Alison Brie-Aubrey Plaza vehicle The Little Hours. Both films play in an absurdist sandbox, boos…
IFF Boston Review: The Little Hours
The Little Hours opens with a promising title sequence: medieval-era nun Aubrey Plaza leads a donkey through the woods as dramatic, orchestral music plays. The instinctive association one makes is to …