Little Women Movie Review: A Near-Perfect Adaptation for This Generation

150 years after its publication, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women remains a rite of passage for young women and girls alike. The March sisters, particularly Jo, were ahead of their time and taught girls that it was okay to go…

Movie Review: Lady Bird

When I tell people I live in California I get two replies: “What part do you live in?” and “How close are you to Hollywood.” This belief that so much of what defines California is its glamour is in the…

Movie Review: 20th Century Women

We’re all shaped by two things: the people who raise us and the decade that inspires us. Writer/director Mike Mills has explored one side of his unique upbringing with 2010’s Beginners, the story of his closeted, cancer-ridden father and how…

Effervescent New Trailer for 20th Century Women

The second trailer for 20th Century Women, the upcoming Mike Mills film has been released.  Mills is an artist, designer and award-winning director, whose 2011 film Beginners gained widespread acclaim. Similarities have already been drawn between the two films, both…

Movie Review: ‘Wiener-Dog’

I have seen a number of independent films and have thoroughly enjoyed the majority of them. Unfortunately, Wiener-Dog does not fall under that category. Due to its unique form, style and storytelling, it just wasn’t for me. But there were…

Movie Review: Maggie’s Plan

Doing screwball comedy isn’t easy. The timing has got to not only be perfect, but the joke itself has got to match the precise moment it is being delivered. Not just that, but the delivery has got to match the…

Sundance 2016: Farts in ‘Swiss Army Man’ and a ‘Wiener-Dog’ On A Cold Day

The festival environment is drastically inconsistent, shifting quickly from the mild sun to a dark cold in the evening, a slight sprinkle to an intense blizzard. Sundance can be friendly and inviting or distant and chilly. When most of your…