Paradise: HopeBy Dustin Jansick The last installment of the Paradise trilogy is Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Hope, a coming-of-age film about a teenage girl who develops a crush on a doctor at a camp...
Destroyer – Five Spanish Songs EPBy Max Freedman Dan Bejar is one of very few people who can claim to have spent the last fifteen or so years yelping and whining his way through a musical career....
Inside Llewyn DavisBy Dustin Jansick The latest creation from masterminds Joel and Ethan Coen is about a folk musician named Llewyn Davis; a couch surfing cat-lover with a full beard who rarely is without...
Lenny CookeBy Dustin Jansick How is it possible that the #1 high school basketball player in America never ended up playing in the NBA? You probably never even heard of his name before....
Let The Fire BurnBy C.J. Prince In Jason Osder’s bleak, infuriating documentary Let The Fire Burn there’s a feeling of amazement at what he and editor Nels Bangerter have achieved through their self-imposed limitations. The...
Walking the Camino: Six Ways to SantiagoBy Bernard Boo “I don’t want to sit in my depressed little life, popping pills in the same pattern.” It’s the type of thought that’s likely crossed all of our minds, though...
Bird Courage -Māia ManuBy Max Freedman Welcome to the twenty-first century, a time when digital methods of acquiring, sharing, and creating files ensure that independent musicians will face extreme difficulty surviving off their art. It’s...
Bettie Page Reveals AllBy Bernard Boo As one subject in director Mark Mori’s loving hagiography Bettie Page Reveals All says, when you see Ms. Page in a photograph, it’s like she’s looking straight into your eyes....
The Punk SingerBy Bernard Boo Throughout the ’90s and into the early 2000’s, Kathleen Hanna blazed a trail for young feminists everywhere, fronting the blistering punk band Bikini Kill and the dance-y electroclash band...
Twice BornBy Bernard Boo Sergio Castellitto’s adaptation of his wife Margaret Mazzantini’s novel, Twice Born is an overwrought romantic melodrama set in the Bosnian conflict that features two fine actors turning in sick-day performances. The...
Sweet DreamsBy Bernard Boo In 1994, Rwanda was devastated by the genocide that saw the country’s Hutus slaughter nearly 1 million Tutsis in a vengeful, horrific act of malice. Rwanda has been on...
FaustBy Jonathan Andrews Aleksandr Sokurov’s 2011 film Faust, screening now at New York City’s Film Forum, is essentially a story of striving and corruption. Drawing from Goethe’s famous play (which is based...
Arcade Fire – ReflektorBy Max Freedman Years down the line, critics and listeners alike might look back on 2013 as the year of mysterious, ridiculous pre-release promotion. Few eras have some of the biggest acts...
PhilomenaBy Bernard Boo Judi Dench, an actress capable of moving mountains with her onscreen power, is capable of much more than what’s required of her in Philomena, a good film based on an...
