Movie Trailer – Lovesong
Director: So Yong Kim Starring: Riley Keough, Jena Malone, Ryan Eggold Release: February 17th, 2017 At least I’m intrigued, the trailer did that much. But beyond that, I doubt I…
DVD Review – The Intervention
Director: Clea DuVall Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter, Natasha Lyonne Clea DuVall, Ben Schwartz, Alia Shawkat, Vincent Piazza, Cobie Smulders Year: 2016 Perhaps the only independently intelligent thing director Clea…
Movie Trailer – Tommy’s Honour
Director: Jason Connery Starring: Jack Lowden, Peter Mullan, Sam Neill Release: April 14th, 2017 God, golf is so boring. Even this movie, which doesn’t look half bad, bores me simply…
Movie Trailer – All Nighter
Director: Gavin Wiesen Starring: J.K. Simmons, Emile Hirsch, Kristen Schaal Release: March 24th, 2017 Right at first, I thought this movie might work. Simmons, Hirsch, buddy comedy; I’ve seen worse.…
Movie Review – The Witch
Director: Robert Eggers Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie Year: 2015 Each year one or two horror flicks actually catch the attention of critics groups and rise above their…
Movie Trailer – The Lovers
Director: Azazel Jacobs Starring: Debra Winger, Tracy Letts, Aidan Gillen Release: May 5th, 2017 A very simple story, but one I think could work. These actors are good enough to…
Movie Trailer – I Am Not Your Negro
Director: Raoul Peck Starring: James Baldwin, Samuel L. Jackson Release: February 3rd, 2017 I don’t know much about Baldwin, but from the few scenes I saw in this trailer, I’m…
Movie Review – The Edge of Seventeen
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner Year: 2016 Hailee Steinfeld may have just saved her career. It blossomed too soon, like a flower thinking…
Book Review – Wildwood
Author: Colin Meloy Year: 2011 Colin Meloy is the lead singer of The Decemberists, an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon who won me over with Hazards of Love, a…
Movie Review – A Monster Calls
Director: J.A. Bayona Starring: Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones Year: 2016 At the risk of making light of death, watching A Monster Calls felt like watching a hundred-minute inside…