With its vibrancy, immaculate costuming, and handsome set design, Olivia Wilde’s sophomoric directorial effort is certainly nice enough to look at. Unfortunately, that’s where it ends. Despite a clear…
Richard Jewell Movie Review: Clint Eastwood’s latest is “#NotAllMen The Movie”
Richard Jewell just might be a contender for the most unintentionally ironic movie ever made. It tells the story of a wrongly accused man, but it does justice to no one. Not Richard Jewell (Paul Walte…
Booksmart Movie Review: A new coming-of-age classic
It’s nearly impossible to discuss Olivia Wilde’s directorial feature debut Booksmart without slipping into hyperbole. Bursting with confidence and personality, it avoids nearly all of the pitfalls of …
A Vigilante Movie Review: When vengeance has substance
Finding strength in subtlety, Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s A Vigilante begins with a single tearful voicemail. “I have two children who come home at 4:00, and I don’t want them to get hurt,” an unnamed woma…
Life Itself Movie Review: An Emotionally Manipulative Fail
Dan Fogelman has become a household name. The creator of This is Us has a generally good track record for putting out good stuff (Tangled and the short-lived Galavant, RIP, being examples). But hey, n…
TV Review: Vinyl 1X01 “Pilot”
In the beginning and ending of the pilot episode to HBO’s latest great-looking drama Vinyl, coked-up record executive Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) is in a crowded club in New York City, 197…
2015 Tribeca Film Festival: Home Improvement Shorts
A largely overlooked aspect of film festivals include short films. Ignoring them and just how ubiquitous they are in entertainment can cause people to miss out some gems that should actually be highly…