Throw a pebble at a window and you might not break it, but the impact will crack it and send long tendrils of damage throughout the pane. No matter how hard you might try to repair it, the glass will…
Kill Order Review: The James Mark film completely misses its mark
Kill Order cannot be a finished movie. There’s no way this wasn’t a workprint accidentally sent to the distributors in place of a final product. I understand that low-budget action filmmaking has its niche audience and that underdeveloped plots and…
Winchester Movie Review: A waste of a fascinating story
Anyone who lives in northern California is aware of the Winchester Mystery House, the house once owned by Sarah Winchester, the heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The house, now a popular tourist attraction, has cultivated an air of…
A Fantastic Woman Movie Review
Although representation of LGBTQ narratives in widespread cinema is constantly on the rise, filmmakers all too often forget about the ‘T’ in the equation. When we do see trans stories brought to the big screen, their protagonists are almost always…
Please Stand By Movie Review
These past few years have seen a greater appreciation of stories told from the autism perspective. New shows like Young Sheldon, The Good Doctor and Atypical, for instance, and recent movies like Life, Animated, Dina and The Accountant —while all varying in quality— …
Slamdance 2018 Review: The Troubled Troubadour
It’s an image stolen, if not from one man’s dreams, then one man’s fevered hallucinations. A cranky sexagenarian, his long hair as white as his tiger-print poncho, neatly sits in a rowboat suspended by two wheeled beams above a train…
Sundance 2018 Review: Hearts Beat Loud
Everyone knows Nick Offerman as the ultra-manly, wood-chopping Ron Swanson from Parks & Recreation. But now that the mustache is off, Offerman has taken on more grounded roles that let him expand his range rather than stilt him in caricature.…