In The Outrun, Rona (Little Women’s Saoirse Ronan) finds herself using alcohol as a coping mechanism. However, she’s also aware that she may be abusing the escape from reality. Trying her best to occupy herself with passions, relationships and changes in scenery, her inability to control urges to binge drink distances herself from her parents and her selfless boyfriend Daynin (Papa Essiedu), as well as places her in harm’s way.
By: Addison Wylie Steven Kostanski is a gifted filmmaker who can effortlessly emulate styles and fads of the past. But for as resourceful and accurate as he is, Kostanski has a habit of working in reverse; placing more attention on the final product rather than thinking about who his work should be geared towards. However, Kostanski’s recent sci-fi/buddy comedy Psycho Goreman suggested that the writer/director was considering his viewers more. His latest indie Frankie Freako, a throwback with similar…
With an impressively involving story using multiple methods to scare the viewer, Hold Your Breath is just the ticket for this year’s Halloween season.
You Gotta Believe is a sports movie that’s as hokey as you could, well, believe. Based around the true story of Little Leaguers who made an impression on sports fans when the team earned a ranking in 2002’s Little League Baseball World Series championship, You Gotta Believe pulls out all the stops to grab families by their heartstrings. However, the film doesn’t feel manipulative. As he exhibited in his heavier sports drama 12 Mighty Orphans, director Ty Roberts…
By: Trevor Chartrand The Becomers is a highly entertaining sci-fi/comedy that does body-swappin’ on a budget. Written and directed by Zach Clark (Little Sister), the film is a testament to the advantages of a well-told simple story.
From writer/director Andrew Currie (Fido), The Invisibles is an ethereal parable about disassociating from trauma and grief.
I can picture filmmaker Braden Sitter Sr. watching the news and becoming sidetracked by the ticker scrolling across the bottom of the screen. I can also picture the filmmaker getting lost down a rabbit hole of ridiculous clickbait articles on social media. This isn’t a knock against Braden because a movie as off-the-wall as his unauthorized comedy The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man needs sheer mischievous curiousity to make it work, and there’s no shortage of…
Known for his unapologetic reviews in London’s Daily Chronicle, theatre critic Jimmy Erskine (Mr. Holmes’ Ian McKellen) finds himself in hot water when the publication gains new ownership, the newspaper’s heir David Brooke (Mark Strong of the Kingsmen franchise). Brooke requests that Erskine should find a lighter attitude when criticizing productions. Jimmy is particularly tough on actress Nina Land (Gemma Arterton of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) to such a degree that triggers her to…
