Posts Tagged ‘Strand Releasing’
Film Review – Closet Monster
Is it actually possible to dislike a movie in which the great Isabella Rossellini voices a pet hamster called Buffy? Well, I don’t think so. That’s why Stephen Dunn‘s coming-of-age tale Closet Monster (2015) had me after a few minutes. That, however, doesn’t mean that…
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Film Review – The Kind Words
In The Kind Words secret revelations about a family’s past seem to have no effect on a group of grown children who meander around for two hours never changing or growing. Dorona Cohen (Rotem Zissman-Cohen), the only daughter in the family, is currently separated from…
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SXSW Film Review – Chevalier
It’s kind of ironic that I’m about to give my very subjective opinion about a film, considering the characters in this particular film decide to ignore the fact that any sort of opinion is based solely in subjective when they decide it’s a good idea…
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SIFF Film Review – Guidance
Ah, the idiot man-child: comedy staple or sad, overused trope? Both actually. I won’t deny I occasionally enjoy watching a dysfunctional dude implode before learning a valuable lesson; Happy Gilmore and School of Rock come to mind as very funny comedies about men who have…
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SIFF Interview – Pat Mills – Guidance
Spencer interviews writer/director/star Pat Mills from the comedy Guidance at SIFF 2015.
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Film Review – Interior. Leather Bar.
James Franco starts off his trite “documentary,” Interior. Leather Bar. waxing philosophical about the implications of the impending legalization of gay marriage. Within the first few seconds he’s already humble-bragged about his studies at Yale (cough, cough) and said that one of his professors there,…
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