Take 5 — The Russia’s Power Mad She Wants to Take Our Cars From Out Our Garages!
So, in yet another film that has been “inspired by a true story” (OED definition: adj. vaguely related to something that happened to someone at…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Check and Mate
Like the John Le Carre on which Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is based we are introduced to the story media res as Control (John Hurt)…
The Weekend Arena 1/13
Don’t Go in the Woods: And, the streak of January horror movies continues this weekend as Gomer Pyle makes his feature-length directorial debut in…
Pariah — Being the Minority of a Minority
Driven by Adepero Oduye’s emotionally powerful performance, Pariah tells the story of Alike (Oduye), a seventeen-year-old high school student trying to navigate her surroundings…
Into the Abyss — Disordering Order
Warner Herzog’s newest documentary Into the Abyss is less about whether capital punishment should exist and more about why it does. Herzog’s opinion on lethal…
The Weekend Arena 1/6
Despite the fifty-four-degree temperature outside, January has descended upon us, something most evidenced by the deluge of highly mediocre movies that are about to be…
War Horse — Hi Yo Silver…Uh, Meh.
From its opening shot of a pastoral landscape in England, War Horse is a beautifully depicted tale of competition, determination, regret, and class –but…
Young Adult — An Awkward, Arrested Development
Ostensibly, Young Adult is a story of arrested development and perpetual adolescence; however, it’s not the comedy that the previews portend it to be. There…
Take 5 — At Year’s End
2011 came to and end, and now it’s time to recap those things we saw, those things we enjoyed, and those things we abhorred. In…
Wendy and Lucy — Mobility, Past and Present
On her way to Alaska, “where they need people,” Wendy’s (Michelle Williams) journey gets derailed: her car breaks down, she gets busted for shoplifting, and…