Talia Balsam startles as Lila, an eccentric and enigmatic woman struggling to cope with her fragile mentality and fracturing family in the new domestic drama “South Mountain”. Hilary Brougher’s main gig is professor of graduate film at Columbia University. Her ...
Iconic singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige throws down the anchor in the new supernatural crime drama “Body Cam”. Blige’s soulful characterization of a conflicted cop captures front and center in this dark and moody chronicle of police corruption and devastating loss. ...
Mixing comedy with suspense can make for a really tricky cinematic recipe. Do you aspire to inspire your audience to giggle or gasp? However, when done right it is quite often entertainment most delectable. Filmmakers Tom Dever and Warren J. ...
Ben Affleck owns the most raw role of his career in “The Way Back”. Affleck inhabits Jack, a gutted construction worker losing a desperate battle with booze and beer. Once a high school basketball phenom, he takes a job coaching ...
My main measuring stick with movies of fiction, in particular horror stories, is always to consider the question, Whose to say this is not how YOU would conceivably behave if faced with similar extraordinary, life-altering and/or threatening circumstances? And so ...
“Honey Boy” is a sordid saga “loosely” based upon troubled actor Shia LaBeouf’s thoroughly sad as hell childhood. This is clearly a movie LaBeouf needed to make. But why? To offer reasons for his jarringly erratic behavior after he became ...
https://youtu.be/JB-A7nYsrl0 The biggest deal about the new murder mystery thriller revolving around the antics of a voyeuristic young lad with Asperger’s Syndrome, “The Night Clerk”, is not really the story itself. Oh, it’s certainly passably amusing fare if you’ve got ...
The new two-part documentary, “Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time”, delivers exactly what the title indicates it will. Laurel Canyon is a place situated northwest of Hollywood in Southern California. And there once existed a magical time from the mid ...
Organizers had to scrap this year’s edition of South By Southwest (SXSW) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the good folks with the Austin, Texas festival were kind enough to provide the film review community with links to the featured ...
Evidently Co-Writers/Directors Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy that’s who. Their dark crime dramedy “Blow the Man Down” (shot entirely in Maine and available soon on amazon prime video) is equal parts silly, savage, dramatic, deranged, hilarious and horrific. Now ...
I spoke this week with Writer/Producer Rob DePalo about his moving film, “Tapestry”. Please click on this link for my review and interview: https://thequickflickcritic.blogspot.com/2020/03/tapestry-weaving-message-of-inspiration.html
The new release “Foggy Days” marks yet another entry in a provocative parade of short films from Sweden. With the focus on modern love, it’s message is both timeless and universal. I daresay nearly all of us have been the ...
