There is, on the off set, nothing that separates Joshy from the many other films of it’s ilk that have come out in recent years. A group of friends travel and spend a weekend in a cabin in the woods, usually to…
Movie Review: Is That You?
It’s difficult to tell where the whimsy ends and the wistfulness begins in Dani Menkin’s Is That You?, an Israeli road trip movie set in the United States. After being fired from his movie projectionist job in Israel, the 60-year…
Movie Review: Floyd Norman – An Animated Life
Legendary Disney animator Floyd Norman—one of the company’s first African-American artists—is touted as three things in the advertising for Michael Fiore and Erik Sharkey’s new documentary Floyd Norman: An Animated Life. The first is “animator.” Obvious enough: after a childhood…
Movie Review: Hell or High Water
Dust billows in waves in David Mackenzie’s newest scorcher Hell or High Water a film that manages to captivate the second the first frame pops into frame. Equal parts heist thriller and meditations on life and what it means to…
Movie Review: Pete’s Dragon
David Lowery might have been born in the wrong decade. The writer/director made waves in 2013 with his breakthrough film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, a Badlands-esque drama set in the sun-drenched backdrop of 1970s Louisiana with open range, low lighting in…
Movie Review: Sun Choke
One would think that psychological horror and experimental filmmaking could go hand-in-hand. One involves imagery and scenes that prey on the audience’s mind rather than being gross or shocking, the other invites different approaches to showing audiences certain story elements.…
Movie Review: Jason Bourne
The best piece of characterization in Jason Bourne happens in the opening scene of the film inside an illegal underground boxing circuit where his talents are maximized for profit. The look on his face says it all, he can hurt…