Indie
Film Review – Certain Women
Certain Women is a feature film from director Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) and her third collaboration with Michelle Williams. Based on short stories by Maile Meloy and a script by Reichardt, Certain Women follows three women, all living in Montana. Their lives…
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Film Review – Morris From America
Morris From America avoids many pitfalls in this well-constructed coming of age story. Morris (Markees Christmas), a thirteen year old African American, is living in Germany with his father Curtis (Craig Robinson), who works for a soccer team. Morris is adapting relatively well to his…
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SIFF Film Review – Middle Man
For all its quirks and bizarre story line Middle Man fails to really land on what it wants to be about. Lenny (Jim O’Heir), a middle-age average man who has lost his mother, decides to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a comedian and drives out to…
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SXSW Film Review – Hunter Gatherer
In Joshua Locy’s Hunter Gatherer (2016), a middle aged man returns home after a three year prison sentence in hopes to turn his life around. What he finds is a world that has left him behind. His mother wants him to get a place of…
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SXSW Film Review – The Other Half
The Other Half begins with a man walking beside railroad tracks, music in the background. He calls someone and says he will be home soon and he wonders where they are. He ends the call and places earbuds back in his ears, the music increasing in…
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SXSW Film Review – 9 Rides
The strangest things happen at night. You can fall in love, go to jail, or both. Many of us go out to relax and have a good time, and sometimes that earnest motivation can lead us into adventures we never saw coming. That is only…
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SXSW Film Review – Loev
Loev, the first feature from writer-director Sudhanshu Saria, is at its most beautiful and heartbreaking when it focuses on what is said when the characters aren’t speaking, and what is avoided when they do. This is a film about love between two people who can…
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Film Review – The Bronze
So you want to watch a film about the hometown Olympic hero? It is best not bring the kids this time. The Bronze is not a family friendly film in any way, shape, or form. It is a rather hilarious take on that story, or at…
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