Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) is known for directing films that include strong and complex characters with profound themes. We haven’t heard much from him for a while (since 2012), but just a few days ago the trailer…
Movie Review: ‘Demolition’
You can disassemble a clock, split it up into its individual spindles and gears and understand all the mechanisms that make it tick. Deconstructing our lives, finding the faults that make us run deficiently, isn’t quite so simple. Jean-Marc Vallée’s…
Ally’s Movie Review: While We’re Young
Like the documentary Ben Stiller’s character Josh is making, Noah Baumbach’s newest film tries to be too many things at once with a muddled ending. It’s a one-time-only film, and after doing stellar work with 2013’s Frances Ha, it’s a…
Growing Up Baumbach: Celebrating 20 Years in Film.
Hello fellow The Squid and the Whale enthusiasts and Greenberg lovers! For those of us who found Frances Ha to be darling and Kicking and Screaming to be stellar, make sure to check out the information below, because you may be in luck. A24 has put together…
Jon’s Movie Review: “Birdman” is a skillful, soaring bird of prey
When something is done naturally, it comes off as effortless. To us, it would be like breathing. To drummers, it would be like drumming. To birds, it would like flying. To Alejandro González Iñárritu, it would be like putting together a…
Miami Screening Giveaway: Win BIRDMAN passes!
I can tell you right now that BiRDMAN is one of the best films of 2014. It’s a hilarious and engrossing cinematic experience that you are unlikely to ever forget. We really want our Miami young folks to see it.…
Ally’s Movie Review: St. Vincent
I’m having a difficult time coming up with anything interesting to say about Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent that hasn’t been said before due to the film doing nothing we haven’t seen before. Bill Murray plays Vincent, a cantankerous old grump…