Reviews

[Review] The Hunger Games

An amalgamation of post-apocalyptic science-fiction and primal survival story, with a touch of romance, it is no surprise that The Hunger Games is being present...

[SXSW Review] The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods is already going down as the one film this year you'll urge all your friends to see, but won't tell them anything about it. While the tra...

[SXSW Review] Nature Calls

Once upon a time there was an comedian named Chris Farley and a movie named Tommy Boy. Farley, coming from a hardworking middle class Midwestern family, often m...

[SXSW Review] Daylight Savings

I had missed Surrogate Valentine at SXSW 2011. However, I learn that Daylight Savings is a continuation of the story of Goh Nakamura (playing himself), an Asian...

[SXSW Review] Scarlett Road

Scarlett Road makes a compelling and compassionate argument in its portrait of Rachel Wotton, a mid-30s sex worker in New South Whales Australia, where her indu...

[SXSW Review] Crazy Eyes

There’s very little redemption in Crazy Eyes, a film that opens with the type of disclosure that appears buried in the end credits next to the copyright informa...

[SXSW Review] King Kelly

I would have never guessed Louisa Krause had it in her, front and center as a webcam girl in King Kelly, with an opening as she masturbates for her adoring fans...

[Review] The Kid With a Bike

Reality is a pretty easy thing to portray in a movie. We all have a pretty firm grip on the rules of the world, and the way that certain events will play out on...

[Review] Jeff, Who Lives At Home

There is a lot to love about Jeff, Who Lives At Home, the newest film by the writing/directing team of Mark and Jay Duplass. I could (and intend to) go on for p...

[SXSW Review] Electrick Children

Rebecca Thomas’ Electrick Children opens in an undefined time and like another film about a village, it is revealed what appears to be the past is present day. ...