Chicago International Film Festival… Chicago International Film Festival 2017: Offenders / Have a Nice Day 27 Oct 201722 Nov 2017 My third and final clump consisted of two World Cinema offerings: Offenders and Have a Nice Day. Offenders (Izgrednici) Serbia. Directed by Dejan Zecevic. 107 minutes. The CIFF program described Offenders as a…
Movie Reviews Synchronicity 11 Feb 201612 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Jacob Gentry, 2015. Starring Chadrian McKnight, Brianne Davis, AJ Bowen, Scott Poythress, Michael Ironside. 101 minutes. 5/10 Few ideas in science fiction tantalize or intrigue like that…
Movie Reviews Phoenix 24 Nov 201512 Nov 2017 Germany. Directed by Christian Petzold, 2014. Starring Nina Hoss, Roland Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf. 98 minutes. 8/10 One of our favorite themes here at the Gallery is identity: what makes us who…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2015: Wrap-up 4 Oct 201510 Oct 2016 Note to those who have been following my Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage: there isn't any new content in this post, this is just the "Best Of" and Ranking segments broken…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2015: Day Six 30 Sep 201510 Oct 2016 On the sixth day, I watched: the John Hawkes-led neo-noir Too Late; the colonial-era horror film The Witch; the Polish supernatural drama Demon; the "extreme" and "controversial" anthology German Angst; Isaac Ezban's…
Movie Reviews Kill Me Three Times 1 Sep 201517 Oct 2016 Australia. Directed by Kriv Stenders, 2014. Starring Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey, Luke Hemsworth, Bryan Brown. 90 minutes. If you're anything like me, you've never asked…
Movie Reviews Nightcrawler 25 Feb 201517 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Dan Gilroy, 2014. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Rene Russo. 117 minutes. When we first meet Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), he's a petty thief who talks like…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Oldboy 25 Aug 201412 Nov 2017 South Korea. Directed by Chan-wook Park, 2003. Starring Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang. 119 minutes. Are you a good person? Silly question, right? Of course you are. Look at you, your life.…
