by John Wildman | Jan 30, 2019 | Theatrical Reviews
“Based on an actual lie.” That’s what we are told at the beginning of Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL. Starring Awkwafina as a young Chinese American woman struggling to pay rent, and kick start her career, the usual young artist’s early steps, pulls the devastating news out...
by John Wildman | Jan 29, 2019 | Theatrical Reviews
As Sacha Polak’s DIRTY GOD begins, we meet Jade (Vicky Knight), who is being fitted for a clear Lucite mask to protect her still-healing face prior to leaving the hospital following surgeries to repair what could be repaired in the aftermath of an acid attack by her...
by Miguel Cima | Jan 29, 2019 | Theatrical Reviews
Sooner or later, unless we are very lucky, there comes a time where we pretend to be something we are not, just to get away from the life we no longer wish to live as it has left us unfulfilled. We run, but we cannot hide. Perhaps we try to escape into the lives of...
by Miguel Cima | Jun 14, 2018 | Theatrical Reviews
Well, it’s 2018, and here we are, actually entertaining a cultural movement which believes that the earth is flat. Until the last 15 or so years, telling someone they believed this scientifically-proven fallacy was a cliché means of insulting one’s intelligence. Now...
by John Wildman | May 10, 2018 | Theatrical Reviews
It’s not often that one screens a documentary at a film festival which could end up threatening a sitting member of a presidential administration, but it’s happened. House Two director Michael Epstein has uncovered a new dimension to one of the Iraq War’s most...
by John Wildman | May 10, 2018 | Theatrical Reviews
In the best of circumstances, a film will create a language for itself. An internal yearning in the artists involved, from the writer and director to the actors on screen, pushes for expression using the medium to its best advantages. It’s an exceedingly rare thing...
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