It’s no surprise that the last installment of The Hunger Games franchise is one of the most anticipated movies of the year. We were lucky enough to chat with two of the actors of the film, Jena Malone (Johanna Mason)…
Movie Review – ‘Tale of Tales’
All three of them end in blood: the story of the albino twins born to two different mothers by a necromancer’s spell; the story of the beautiful young princess accidentally bargained off by her foolish, distracted father as the bride…
Ally’s Movie Review: Mojave
Reuniting after Inside Llewyn Davis in William Monahan’s second feature film is Garrett Hedlund and Oscar Isaac. Hedlund plays Thomas, a suicidal artist in the dregs of Hollywood who goes out into the desert. While there he comes across a lone homicidal…
Movie Review – ‘Jauja’
How odd: I feel like I shouldn’t like Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja half as much as I do. A mystery without an answer (or is it an answer without a mystery?), Jauja feels at times like an almost-Western, an almost-historical drama,…
Movie Review – ‘Tangerine’
The moment I stopped liking Sean S. Baker’s Tangerine (2015) and started loving it came about two-thirds of the way through. Fresh-out-of-prison transgender prostitute Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) crams herself into a club bathroom with Dinah (Mickey O’Hagan), another…
Movie Review – ‘Rock in the Red Zone’
The first thing you need to know about Laura Bialis’ Rock in the Red Zone: it isn’t really about the music scene in Sderot, Israel—a town less than a mile from the Gaza Strip baring the twin monikers of the…
Movie Review: ‘The Danish Girl’
The Danish Girl aspires to be an Academy Award contender on virtually every level. This mindset is the film’s biggest strength and its biggest hindrance. From a technical standpoint, it is impeccably filmed. Every frame is filled with visual splendor…