Indie
SXSW Film Review – Claire in Motion
A woman sleeps in bed. Her husband turns over and kisses her good morning. She continues to sleep, he gets up and gets dressed. The husband goes out for a hiking trip. He parks his car, puts on his backpack, and walks into the woods.…
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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Film Review – Asthma
You ever have a movie where you want to scream at the screen everything that is bugging you about what is happening? If so, Asthma is the film for you! There is a vibe we get off of a film where we can sense what kind of…
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Film Review – Burnt
Burnt lacks anything worth biting into. We have Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper), former wonder chef who wrecked his life with booze and drugs and now three years later is clean and heading to London, desperate to open a new restaurant and this time earning three stars in a travel…
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Film Review – Room
Room has been playing to critical acclaim since its September release at the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals. I cannot ignore a film that stars Brie Larson anymore since I discovered her performance in Short Term 12 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film…
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VFF Double Feature – Wednesday, May 9 and Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Wednesday, May 9 Vahid Jalilvand’s Iranian film Wednesday, May 9 (2015) delves into what it truly means to be compassionate to your fellow neighbor. If you have one piece of bread in your hands, but hundreds of starving people asking for your generosity, whom would…
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Film Review – Lost Soul
“I realised that I had to repeat this idiotic formula; and then began the insanest ceremony. The voice in the dark began intoning a mad litany, line by line, and I and the rest to repeat it… ‘His is the House of Pain. ‘His is…
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Film Review – The Wolfpack
The Wolfpack presents a story you’ve heard before: awkward teenagers binge-watch movies. Heck, you probably live that story yourself, and I suspect that much interest in the film (this reviewer’s included) stems from the instant empathy film fans are likely to feel with its cinematically-obsessive…
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