The Other Lamb
Malgorzata Szumowska’s “The Other Lamb” opens with a number of tell-tale signs that something is not quite right. While women and girls in prairie dresses and uniformly braided hair attend to daily chores around...
Category: Movie Reviews
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Rarely have I been more frustrated by a documentary production’s formal choices and how they interfere with the engaging content of the story they’re trying to tell than I was during Netflix’s latest true...
Resistance
Everybody hates mimes, we have been led to believe. But this is not true, or at least, not quite true. In the training of actors, mime is an important learned skill. And I am...
The Scheme
There may be no March Madness this year but there’s something truly insane related to college basketball this Tuesday. Airing on HBO after its canceled SXSW premiere, “The Scheme” tells the story of Christian...
Banana Split
There’s something about the summer in between high school and college. Friendships break up or become super clingy, due to all that impending separation anxiety. Romances break up. People get way too drunk and...
There’s Something in the Water
The celebrity-driven documentary is a tricky one. It’s obvious that these famous faces want to talk about something they’re passionate about—they may even have talked about their cause célèbre on a talk show or...
Fascinated by Temporary Love: Writer/Actress Hannah Marks on Banana Split
We expect friends to have a common interest, but it’s unusual when that common interest is a boy who is one girl’s ex, and the other’s current boyfriend. In “Banana Split,” co-writer Hannah Marks stars...
Recent Comments