“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”, so goes the final line of Robert Towne’s screenplay for the classic 1974 film in which the titular “Chinatown” is more of a defeatist state of mind than an actual
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AITAMAAKO’TAMISSKAPI NATOSI: BEFORE THE SUN – Review
The countryside. A beautiful place to be. Way out there, lives a proud Blackfoot family and their big ol’ horse ranch. The Red Crow family is a hardworking and loving family, and the main focus
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THE END OF SEX Reunites an Unexpected Trio
It’s been just over a decade since director Sean Garrity teamed up with actors Jonas Chernick and Emily Hampshire to produce the 2012 sex-comedy An Awkward Sexual Adventure, where Chernick portrayed a jilted office drone
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BYSTANDERS Mines the Limits of Loyalty Among Friends
It’s rather easy to see a mugshot of an accused or convicted criminal in the media and say to yourself “well that guy’s clearly rotten to the core” or some other similar sentiment. It’s almost
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SOFT a Hazy Picture of Queer Youth
Somewhere between the whimsical horror of Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me and the gritty verisimilitude of Harmony Korine’s Kids would likely be where Joseph Amenta’s feature directorial debut Soft would land. It’s a gleeful romp
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A GOOD PERSON Mines Family Trauma
Zach Braff is one of those talents that always seemed to escape my radar. I never tuned into Scrubs, I missed the acclaim that met his 2004 directorial debut Garden State and the controversy that
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