Elderly narratives are a genre unto themselves, with a formula all their own. Italian director Paolo Virzi’s English-language debut, The Leisure Seeker, is perfectly suited to appeal to the over-60 set with its sweetly told story of two elderly people…
Game Night Movie Review: A surprisingly fun comedy outing
Game Night is certainly better and more enjoyable than it has any right to be. I fully expected to walk into a movie where I had already experienced the best, funniest moments to be had, since I’d already seen the…
Annihilation Movie Review: A terrifying and beautiful experience
Life, in Alex Garland’s Annihilation, his follow up to Ex Machina, is a ponderous, methodical, and unbalanced matter. Natalie Portman’s Lena, vacant and distant, states that the mystical “shimmer” isn’t destroying, but “creating something new”. The feverish world Garland has…
Basmati Blues Movie Review: Brie Larson can’t save this ill judged production
It hurts to malign on a movie that’s directed and written by someone who obviously enjoyed the inspiration behind it. That’s at least what I’m assuming is the case with director and screenwriter Dan Baron’s Americanized ode to Bollywood, Basmati…
Golden Exits Movie Review: A new face shakes up the status quo
In this decidedly unmelodious yet resoundingly affectionate Brooklyn saga, a network of family and familiars become severed to near irreparability with the appearance of a new face in their personal and work space. Channeling Cassavetes (à la Faces and Husbands),…
Movie Review: Entanglement
From squinting distance, Entanglement may seem like run-of-the-mill quirky, twee Sundance fodder. Constructing a black comedy about suicidal urges that includes cutesy animation strewn about and a haphazard, slapdash romance tacked on, it’s got all of the usual markings. However,…
Fifty Shades Freed Movie Review: The Best is Saved for Last (Yet Still Not Enough)
Was it all a dream? Is the nightmare finally over? These were thoughts that immediately came to mind as soon as the lights turned on after Fifty Shades Freed, the third and (hopefully) final installment in the series based on…