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In Secret
Émile Zola’s definitive novel Thérèse Raquin has been translated to screen and stage too many times to count. Perhaps because it’s the definitive tale of forbidden lust gone way, way wrong. Though nobody recently has done as straightforward a...
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Almost Human
Writer/director Joe Begos has fashioned Almost Human, his debut feature, as a love letter to 80s horror/sci-fi schlock. The film opens with Seth (Graham Skipper) arriving at his friend Mark’s (Josh Ethier) house in a frenzy. Seth tells Mark...
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SF Indiefest Capsules: Hide Your Smiling Faces, Bluebird, More
Hide Your Smiling Faces Set in a beautifully photographed forested town in the rural North East, Hide Your Smiling Faces by Daniel Patrick Carbone is a moving, richly atmospheric coming-of-age film in the vein of Terrence Malick. It centers on...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Actor
What started out as one of the most competitive categories of the Oscar race is looking to be the easiest one to predict. The Oscar statue is now Matthew McConaughey’s to lose, but is his performance as Ron Woodroof...
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Hank: 5 Years From the Brink
A layman’s guide to the ins and outs of the 2007-08 financial crisis, Hank: 5 Years From the Brink does a good job of clearing things up for the uninformed, but doesn’t offer much else. Academy Award-nominated director Joe Berlinger sits...
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Awful Nice
If you grew up with a sibling close in age as you there is a good chance you can attest that sibling rivalry is very much a real thing. This competitiveness between family members has been depicted a lot...
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BAFTA Awards: ‘Gravity’ & ’12 Years A Slave’ Take the Most Trophies
The 67th British Academy Film Awards was this past Sunday, February 16th. Sometimes providing a potential glimpse at what Oscar night may bring, the winners were fairly safe bets and may prove as consolation prizes if Academy members vote...
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Sick Birds Die Easy
If you spent the better part of the 00s listening the emo/indie bands on the Saddle Creek record label (Bright Eyes, The Faint, Cursive, Maria Taylor) like I have, there is a good chance you have seen the work...
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Omar
A few shades darker than your average thriller, writer-director Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar, a nominee for the 2014 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, explores the psychological trauma endured by the eponymous Palestinian twentysomething (Adam Bakri) and his childhood friends Amjad...
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Joanna Arnow Talks Baring All in “i hate myself :)” (SF Indiefest)
i hate myself 🙂 begins with New York filmmaker Joanna Arnow aiming her camera at her first boyfriend James, a crude, oft-drunk showman who enjoys screaming the n-word to a room of black people during open mic “performances”. He...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Actress
The one question on everyone’s mind about Best Actress is, “Can we give this to Cate Blanchett already so we can all go home?” It’s another easy category to predict, and rightfully so. Blanchett hasn’t had a proper lead...
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese went cold after surprising everybody with his 2006 Best Picture winning The Departed. Years of toiling for Oscar with big-scale period epics like Gangs of New York and The Aviator reaped little reward. Instead, it was a...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: The Hunt, Into the Wild, From Beyond, & More
Welcome to WTI’s Weekend Streaming Recommendations where I recommend 4-5 films that under-watched, under-appreciated, or just plain old personal favorites. My goal is to take the hassle out of deciding which film to stream on the plethora of streaming sites...
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My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil, director Sally El Hosaini’s first feature length film, takes us deep into the heart of London’s housing projects. We follow the story of two brothers, Rashid and Mo (played by James Floyd and Fady Elsayed,...
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