Boy A is the perfect kind of movie to see completely cold. My pals Vickie and Eric has both caught the film at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007, and they were all abuzz about this independent British…
The coming-of-age film is a tried and true formula. We follow a child, usually a boy, as he grows from wide-eyed innocence, through his formative years, until he becomes, at least in the eyes of the s…
Moving to a new town or having a baby are both life-changing events, but doing them both in quick succession can be pretty discombobulating. For Kelly (Juliette Lewis), enduring this transition is onl…
The setting is a lazy beach community in New Zealand, where the adults throw drunken house parties at night and sleep through the day, while the kids pretty much are left to take care of themselves.&n…
Ratcatcher is a film about childhood in the same tradition of My Life As a Dog. Just like a child's life, the story rambles from incident to incident, without much forewarning or thought. In fact, in …
When the press kit for ... Drama Queen arrived in my mailbox, it contained a letter to the press from the film’s newbie director, Sara Sugarman, detailing what a joy it was to create the movie. She wr…
I remember once seeing a local news story about a family of four that was involved in a horrific car crash, where all but one of the victims died either instantly or within hours of the accident. As t…
If you weren't subjected to the marketing of this film, you may find yourself wondering about the title. If you see the movie, and maybe didn't catch the half-second utterance of the term in context, …
Things are a little tense in the realm of perpetually feuding Greek gods Zeus (Sean Bean), Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) and Hades (Steve Coogan). The bickering brothers have long been at odds, but when som…
For anyone who hasn’t yet been caught up in the zeitgeist, TFiOS is based on John Green’s bestselling young-adult novel of the same name, and centers on the relationship between two teenagers as they …
While watching Stephanie Daley, I couldn't shake the feeling that I had come across basically this exact story very recently. It was a novel I read called Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult, that told a stor…
Napoleon Dynamite is so flippin’ funny I can hardly stand it. I have no shame—I don’t care if Spielberg directed it. But I should preface all this by confessing that part of my giddy delight comes fro…
