Ginger and Rosa is a movie directed by Sally Potter and set in 1962 London. It’s full of 1962 stuff and run-of-the-mill adolescent stuff including questioning authority, ill-advised [...]
In director Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud we get the story of a daughter and father in transition.* They write a song during a family jam session, and it gets some play on Spotify, which [...]
Never do I ever feel more like I’m living in an Emperor has No Clothes world than when I watch David Lynch movies including this one, Mulholland Drive. Everyone speaks very slowly, there [...]
(16 total movies watched) (Vacation!) Oddball cancer movie.Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The underdog sparkles.Dumplin’ Quiet and beautiful.Roma Feelings under control.First Man Some very [...]
Unlike Joel Edgerton’s The Gift, a taut thriller that just keeps ratcheting up the stakes, the energy and momentum in Boy Erased is constantly being depleted by the movie’s [...]
Anne with an “E” takes the Anne of Green Gables story and characters, grounds it in a trauma-informed viewpoint and steers the series in a different direction than the books.* Amybeth [...]
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a nice entry into the LGBTQ canon and that’s about it. Cameron’s story of being sent to a gay conversion camp in the mid-90s is important, but this [...]
In Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace, Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie do more with less acting as a father/daughter pair living in a city park* This movie is Tom’s coming of age story as [...]