Much like the comets and shooting stars that Del (Justin Long) and Kimberly (Emmy Rossum) are waiting to see, Comet is a film you have to wait for to fully get. Not that waiting is a bad thing mind you. In fact it’s the anticipation of what might be said next or revealed visually that
It’s a rare occasion for me to sit down for a film geared towards family entertainment (discounting animated films), which made Earth to Echo an interesting change of pace for me at the Los Angeles Film Festival this year. While I was engaged for much of the film, there was an inherent disconnect between what the movie
Thoroughly composed and crafted their are going to be few documentaries are gorgeously made as My Name is Salt, the documentary playing in competition at the Los Angeles Film Festival. That beauty stands in such opposition with the hard manual labor the subjects that are the center of the doc is doing. Or perhaps they’re working
It has taken me a couple of days to jot down thoughts on Bong Joon-ho‘s film Snowpiercer before typing this review, in part because the film that is such a jolt to the system that you need some time to recover. There’s so much to digest with the movie that you have to let it
How does one react when a crisis seems both right next door and worlds away? This is one of the many questions the characters in Chris Mason Johnson‘s film Test, which tackles the AIDS crisis from the POV of a young gay man who is an understudy in a dance company. Rather than just focusing on the harrowing aspects of this era, Test seeks to explore the characters who just happen to be living in a time when this all was possible. In this respect, Test is a wonderful character study and tone poem, that although it doesn’t necessarily succeed in every avenue it hopes to explore, it’s well made enough to be an engaging film.