We are entering the sweet spot of summer when Hollywood begins to tease its fall movies, typically the awards contenders that will likely fill our year-end top 10 lists. Based on Garrard Conley’…
Movie Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
I desperately want to love Yorgos Lanthimos’ films. His caustic, often disturbing style shows shades of Stanley Kubrick a la A Clockwork Orange and the best moments of both The Lobster and The Killing…
Movie Review: The Beguiled
When Clint Eastwood starred in the 1971 Don Siegel drama The Beguiled it was a means of changing up his persona, showing that the action hero could play a leading man who literally drives women to mad…
Movie Review: The Beguiled
When Clint Eastwood starred in the 1971 Don Siegel drama The Beguiled it was a means of changing up his persona, showing that the action hero could play a leading man who literally drives women to mad…
TV Review: Big Little Lies
The miniseries medium is a gift in many ways allows writers to create or adapt a body of work over a couple of episodes instead of it being squashed into the running time of a film or dragged out over…
Movie Review: Lion
The first hour of Garth Davis’s Lion (based on the true story of Saroo Bierley) is one of the finest explorations of the human experience this year. We follow a young Saroo after he is devasta…
Interview: Lion Composers Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, first time feature-film director Garth Davis, who’s earned his stripes for his work on the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake, brought us the wor…