In Andrea Arnold’s American Honey we get a meander across America via a white van full of underprivileged, tattooed youth selling magazine subscriptions.* Star’s (Sasha Lane**) good [...]
Kelly Fremon Craig’s excellent The Edge of Seventeen has popped up on Netflix and this review is here to convince you to watch the film. Nadine (played by the incredibly talented Hailee [...]
I call Carrie Pilby successful, because when a movie can have a character I would be judgmental of in real life, yet I enjoy her company in the movie, that’s a win. While Carrie does have [...]
In Alex Lehmann’s Blue Jay, a chance hometown meeting of high school sweethearts launches this two-people-walking-and-talking-style story that you like or you don’t.* Tentative in [...]
The magicians are back* and up to their usual tricks, but the FBI is on their tail, as is Walter Mabry.** There are complicating factors, and tricks and double crosses and it all holds [...]
This poster is heaped with praise, but I found that Jesse Plemons’s character was not very accessible emotionally and that lack of connection sank the film. It gets marks for [...]