Listen to hear me refer to the June summary as the May summary two-thirds of the time, find out why I think In the Heights was such a success, and learn why I have the same movie in both the Skip [...]
Peeples Directed by Tina GordonWritten by Tina Gordon The review: Meet-the-parents-style films are not my favorite,* but this entry provides ample opportunity to show off Craig Robinson’s many [...]
Afternoon Delight Directed by Joey SolowayWritten by Joey Soloway The review: This film tricks you into thinking it’s a kind of rich-people problem, white-woman-depression film, but Soloway is so [...]
How I Live Now Directed by Kevin MacdonaldWritten by Jeremy Brock, Penelope Skinner, Tony Grisoni The review: While I could see what this movie was trying to do* it didn’t quite pull through, but [...]
The review: Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From Stardom brings light to that visible but invisible maker of music: the backup singer. As we follow the careers of singers from the 1960s onward, we see [...]
Director Lynn Shelton excels at telling normal-life-type stories and making them compelling. In Touchy Feely, Rosemary DeWitt develops an aversion to bodily contact at the same time her [...]
Knowing next to nothing about Mr. Burnham, I prepped for my viewing of his directorial debut Eighth Grade by watching these two comedy specials.* I found What. to be VERY high [...]
This film falls into the category of Interesting Premise Poor Execution. I had several questions about the main character* that weren’t answered early enough for me and the question marks [...]