Film Review: Thirst Street Erotic Thriller Or Winking Parody: Sexy Indie Straddles The Line Brooklyn-based indie filmmaker Nathan Silver (Uncertain Terms, Stinking Heaven, Exit Elena) channels his inner Pedro Almodóvar with his latest film, the delightfully twisted, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 05, 2017 Read More
Film Review: Battle Of The Sexes Sporting Flashback Has A Lot To Say About Gender, Sexuality Very often (like, now, for instance) it’s difficult to assess how much progress we’ve actually experienced as a country and a people in [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 28, 2017 Read More
Film Review: Stronger Unvarnished Memoir Of The Boston Bombings Trades Exploitation For Emotion The problem with ripping stories straight from the headlines is that you run the risk of being exploitative, of molding a narrative to [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 21, 2017 Read More
Film Review: Neither Wolf Nor Dog Roadtrip Through Lakota Country Is Slow But Sincere In Its Message Sadly, Native American stories are something of a rarity in today’s Hollywood landscape. Occasionally, a wide release will use Native American lands as [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 07, 2017 Read More
Film Review: Patti Cake$ 8 Mile Goes To Jersey In Beat-Dropping Indie Drama There is an interesting, button-pushing movie to be made about the intersection of urban black culture and suburban white culture. It started as [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 31, 2017 Read More
Film Review: Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story Portrait Of Unsung Guitar God Lets You Doc Out With Your Rock Out Any Bowie fan worth their eyeliner has surely watched D.A. Pennebaker’s essential 1973 concert documentary Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. Despite [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 24, 2017 Read More
Film Review: Shot Caller Prison Drama Succeeds In Making Life Behind Bars Look Bad—Which Isn’t Much Of A Challenge, Really In the wake of previous features Felon and Snitch, stuntman-turned-filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh sticks with his locked-and-loaded theme, writing and directing the good-man-goes-to-prison [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 17, 2017 Read More
Film Review: Brigsby Bear Oddball Indie Comedy Looks At The Dangers Of Nostalgia And The Joys Of Fandom The first step in understanding the oddball indie comedy Brigsby Bear is noticing that it’s produced by The Lonely Island. The viral video-making [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 10, 2017 Read More
Film Review: Lady Macbeth Impolite Bbc Drama Is Bad Romance At Its Best There are British films, and then there are BBC films. That familiar, three-letter, reverse display font logo at the beginning of a movie [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 03, 2017 Read More “I’m about to get Victorian on your ass!”
Film Review: A Ghost Story Minimalist Tale Of Life And Death May Be Saying Something, But It’s Keeping Awfully Quiet A Ghost Story, the supernatural, emocore, indie oddity from up-and-coming filmmaker David Lowery, is self-consciously arty and aggressively—even confrontationally—dull. But is that necessarily [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 27, 2017 Read More