Posts Tagged ‘Fox Searchlight Pictures’
DIFF Film Review – Dom Hemingway
“Is my cock exquisite?” That is the first line uttered in Dom Hemingway. What follows is a monologue on Dom Hemingway’s penis that rival none ever seen or heard before. It is poetry, only cruder. That is the audience’s introduction to the film and the…
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Film Review – The Grand Budapest Hotel
In the connection between history and understanding is memory. Stories are predicated on memory between time and place. It is in this space where interpretation comes from. Information about somewhere and some-when informs our imagination, which in turn creates a memory of something we were…
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Film Review – Enough Said
Julia Louis-Dreyfus shows why she is a leading lady no matter what the medium in Enough Said, a thoughtful and funny film about navigating life, love, and kids growing up. The easy way to do this kind of film about older people dating would be…
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Film Review – Black Nativity
With the holiday season kicking into high gear, we can expect our fair share of holiday-themed movies. If you’re not the type who enjoys this kind of fare, it may be best for you to turn away now. Black Nativity is unabashedly a Christmas musical,…
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Film Review – 12 Years A Slave
In school, we learned about slavery in our U.S. History class. We read the textbooks, we wrote reports, and we gave presentations on it. Besides perhaps the Holocaust, it is one of the worst crimes against humanity in recorded history, and it happened in this…
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Interview – Sean Durkin – Martha Marcy May Marlene
Spencer interviews Sean Durkin, director of Martha Marcy May Marlene. This episode can be played online via the flash player below or it can be downloaded from here. It is available on iTunes and Stitcher.
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Film Review – Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Sundance Film Festival has a reputation for being a launching pad for filmmakers. This is becoming more challenging, as increasingly lately it seems to be a premiere spot for the indie branches of film studios to screen their latest projects. Still, every year, a…
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