Stay Down
Angel Has Fallen by George Wolf Olympus, then London, now Angel. They keep Fallen, must they keep getting up? To be fair, Angel isn’t nearly the dumpster dive we took…read more →
Archive For August, 2019
River of Dreams
The Peanut Butter Falcon by George Wolf Zack Gottsagen wanted to be a movie star. Filmmakers Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz told Zack there just weren’t many roles available for…read more →
Bird of Prey
The Nightingale by Hope Madden There is a moment in George Miller’s 2015 action masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. The empty bridal chamber is revealed quickly. Scrawled on the wall:…read more →
I Do or Die
Ready or Not by Hope Madden Fucking rich people. I don’t know about you, but this is a sentiment I can get behind. Grace (Samara Weaving, Mayhem) doesn’t know whether…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of August 19
Wow, there are a lot of movies coming home this week. Some of them are so bad. Just really, extraordinarily bad. But hidden in there are a couple of decent…read more →
Fright Club: Missing Persons
There is something primally terrifying in the idea of missing persons – losing someone or being lost. Where are they and what is happening to them? No mater which side…read more →
One Is the Loneliest Number
One Child Nation by George Wolf A heartbreaking, sometimes devastating and absolutely necessary history lesson, One Child Nation turns a filmmaker’s very personal story into a profile of shared helplessness.…read more →
Screening Room: Blinded By the Light, Good Boys, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Honeyland
Another week chock full of movie options. Guilty pleasures to disappointments, poetic fables to fanboy riots. Check them out:
Rich People Problems
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Hope Madden Low-key visionary director Richard Linklater, inexhaustible talent Cate Blanchett and wildly popular source material exploring creativity, motherhood and existential angst—Where’d You Go, Bernadette…read more →
Fin Again Begin Again
47 Meters Down: Uncaged by George Wolf Two years ago, Johannes Roberts proved he could craft some fine sharky thrills amid the soggy dialog and questionable logic of 47 Meters…read more →