Posts Tagged ‘Chris Messina’
Film Review – I.S.S.
I.S.S. (2023) presents an intriguing premise. The International Space Station is a laboratory, observatory, and research facility that has been orbiting Earth since the late 1990s. The “ISS” came to be through the collaboration of multiple countries – namely the United States and Russia. As of…
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Film Review – I Care a Lot
It’s a nasty scheme. A doctor – under dubious circumstances – picks out one of their patients. They make sure the patient is financially secure, has little to no acquaintances, and are elderly but healthy enough to stick around for the near future. The doctor…
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Film Review – Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is a spin-off of 2016’s Suicide Squad. I obsessed over anything about Suicide Squad until I saw it. It was a disappointment, to put it mildly. One of the best characters in the film and one…
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Film Review – Live By Night
Live by Night marks Ben Affleck’s fourth outing as a director of a feature film. It is also his fourth time as a feature film screenwriter. The film is based on the bestseller by Dennis Lehane who was also the author of Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone. Affleck…
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Interview – Jake Johnson & Steve Berg – Digging For Fire
Sarah interviews actors Jake Johnson and Steve Berg from the drama Digging For Fire.
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Film Review – Digging For Fire
Naturalism is a deterrent for some moviegoers. Mispronunciations, reeling improvisation and spontaneous laughter are mostly reserved for gag reels. Writer/director/sometimes actor Joe Swanberg (You’re Next, Happy Christmas), shining knight of the mumblecore movement, revels in these types of moments. One of the liveliest movie-related arguments…
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Film Review – Manglehorn
In the pantheon of actors who have aged onscreen, one reoccurring motif seems to be the story of the now aged man, withered with a life of memory and regret, must come to terms with their life and find meaning in it all. If this…
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Film Review – Ruby Sparks
It has been six years since Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris burst onto the film scene after directing the breakout hit Little Miss Sunshine. It was a little indie film that became a surprise hit and charmed people worldwide. I know I have been very…
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