Indie
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…
READ MORESXSW 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…
READ MORESXSW 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…
READ MORESXSW 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…
READ MORESXSW 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…
READ MOREFilm 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…
READ MORESXSW 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.…
READ MORETop 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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