Hello from a tired individual at the LA Film Festival. This has been both a fun and exhausting thing to cover, as with most festivals. Anyways, I’ve seen some pretty good films lately and decided that I should tell you about them. Below you will find capsule reviews of three projects that all provided me
There’s a comfort in sitting down for a Marvel movie in that you pretty much know what you are in store for. Even when the films underwhelm, they are tonally consistent. With this kind of audience understanding and production, you can kind of take for granted what it actually takes to make films that connect
There’s something about these Richard Linklater films, man. It’s hard to know exactly how to describe the phenomenon that is a Linklater picture, with each of his movies containing a spirit that can’t be seen, but a spirit that has such a tangibility that audience members come away from a project enveloped by his world building, his characters, and his themes. His latest film, Everybody Wants Some, manages to be so many things at once: a sports film, a coming of age story, a brilliant comedy, and a deep rumination on college life and the human condition.
If any of you have followed me or this site since it has been around, you are familiar with me saying “*squints*” as a reaction to things. I often use it as a form of shade, to signify something that I think is ridiculous and deserving of little to no further examination. There’s probably a
It seems strange to start my review of The Witch with how I felt by the end, but it seems as good a place as any. In fact, letting you know that I felt shook to my core and completely unable to deal is probably the kind of reassurance one would need when considering whether
At what point does being self-aware of a genre actually start to work against you? This was a question I pondered upon leaving my packed and pretty amped up screening of Deadpool. Surrounded by people who were raving about the film, I found myself in a weird place of feeling like I was giving the movie a bad grade, despite my immense like for the film.