Paolo Virzi, the Italian filmmaker behind the latest Helen Mirren/Donald Sutherland romantic drama The Leisure Seeker is definitely a character! Before starting our interview he cracked jokes about the chilly New York weather and about how California, where I’m located,…
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…
Emily Bett Rickards talks new film Funny Story, Arrow, her love of Comedy and More [Interview]
How did you first get involved with Funny Story? EBR: I read the script and I thought that the writing was phenomenal and felt like I wanted to meet with the team. We had a long talk over coffee and…
Peter Rabbit Movie Review
Modern family films, especially those based on previously established commodities, run the risk of alienating die hard purists. Updates for contemporary audiences are often a necessity but can come at the expense of the author’s original intent. Peter Rabbit, a…
On Body And Soul Movie Review
Ever since I was a child, I’ve felt that pretty much the entirety of social conventions and interactions is something dense, awkward, and even physically painful at times. Every step of my school experience and every job I’ve had so…
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…
The Commuter Review: Liam Neeson’s latest is a flashy and fun ride
]There comes a moment in Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Commuter where all one’s problems with the film—all one’s disbelief towards its improbable premise, all one’s discomfort with its occasionally shoddy camerawork and editing—fall away. In this moment we realize our total…