Movie Reviews The Open House 11 Mar 201811 Sep 2019 "Have you thought about how weird open houses are?" teenaged Logan Wallace (Dylan Minnette) asks his mother Naomi (Piercey Dalton) about a third of the way through The Open House. "You give…
Movie Reviews Super Dark Times 7 Jan 201815 Mar 2018 United States: Directed by Kevin Phillips, 2017. Starring Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Max Talisman, Sawyer Barth, Amy Hargreaves. 100 minutes. ★★★★ Super Dark Times opens with a death.…
Capsule Reviews Capsule Reviews: Personal Shopper; Hounds of Love; Okja; What Happened to Monday; Star Wars: The Last Jedi 15 Dec 201714 Mar 2018 Personal Shopper France. Directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Kristen Stewart, Sigrid Bouaziz, Ty Olwin, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lee, Nora von Waldstätten. In case It Comes at Night didn't slake your…
Chicago International Film Festival… Chicago International Film Festival 2017: Four Hands / Maus / Sicilian Ghost Story 21 Oct 201722 Nov 2017 I'm back from the depths to cover some movies from this year's Chicago International Film Festival. As with last year, I'm attending screenings in weekend-oriented clumps. This first clump consists…
Capsule Reviews My Months in Film: March through September, 2016 2 Oct 201622 Nov 2017 So I'm back, apparently. I didn't expect the Gallery to remain shuttered this long: I made some genuine attempts in April and May to get back into the groove...and couldn't…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2016: Wrap-Up 1 Oct 201622 Nov 2017 Ah, Fantastic Fest! It's kind of like a comic-book convention, except with Elijah Wood instead of cosplayers, and there's always some guy right in front of you in the line…
Movie Reviews Estranged 4 Mar 201612 Nov 2017 United Kingdom. Directed by Adam Levins, 2015. Starring Amy Manson, James Cosmo, James Lance. 101 minutes. 5/10 Dysfunctional family relationships often prove fertile ground for psychological thrillers, with first-time director Adam…
Movie Reviews They Look Like People 1 Mar 201612 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Perry Blackshear, 2015. Starring MacLeod Andrews, Evan Demouchel, Margaret Ying Drake. 80 minutes. 8/10 Once again, let's turn to Wikipedia, the repository of all human knowledge: The…
Movie Reviews The Interior 24 Feb 201612 Nov 2017 Canada. Directed by Trevor Juras, 2015. Starring Patrick McFadden. 80 minutes. 9/10 Recently, a friend of mine gave up his job, home, and girlfriend in New York, and (citing a struggle…
For Cinema Axis… Goodnight Mommy 8 Dec 201512 Nov 2017 Austria, 2014. AKA Ich seh ich seh. Directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz. Starring Susanne Wuest, Elias Schwarz, Lukas Schwarz. 99 minutes. 9/10 Humans seem to possess an innate aversion to…
