Posts Tagged ‘IFC Films’
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…
READ MOREFilm Review – Disorder
Matthias Schoenaerts enters the realm of legitimate international star in Alice Winocour’s Disorder (2015). Schoenaerts has been a working actor for years now, but it’s with this performance – as a French soldier suffering from a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – that…
READ MORESIFF Film Review – Carnage Park
I like gore. I really, really like it. In my opinion, most movies would be better with a little eyeball popping or face stabbing. Shooting is okay as long as there is lots of blood spurts, and, thankfully, I got some in Mickey Keating’s new…
READ MORESIFF Double Feature – Weiner and Resilience
Weiner: Holy crap is Anthony Weiner a dumbass. He’s also idealistic, brash, attention seeking, quick to anger, a great public speaker, politically motivated, and married to a very smart woman whom he just cannot seem to stop humiliating. To refresh your memory, Weiner was a…
READ MOREFilm Review – 45 Years
If you are into quiet, subtle, brilliant film acting, you will be into the new film 45 Years. Thoughtful adult cinema about characters over a certain age is increasingly rare anymore. And especially allowing actors in their advanced years star in a film while giving…
READ MOREFilm 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…
READ MOREFilm Review – Sleeping With Other People
Sex is such a simple thing, but it can sure make matters complicated. It’s an act that we all (hopefully) get an opportunity to experience sometime in our lives, but it can make people do and say some really silly things. Prime example: the main…
READ MOREFilm Review – Phoenix
After seeing Phoenix, I always think of the film as being in black and white (it is not), with only little details in color: the red dress, a shade of lipstick, the husband’s eyes. Comparisons to Vertigo aside, the film is more of a companion…
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