by Daphne Street | Apr 12, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
“I feel like I’m not old enough to be 17. I thought I’d be more comfortable in my own skin.” –Dusty ALL THIS PANIC is a documentary film created by Director Jenny Gage and husband, Cinematographer Tom Betterton, which captures the stories of seven Brooklyn...
by Kate Morgan | Apr 7, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews, Uncategorized
When it comes to the situation that is trauma and the way humans process it, there is no time like the present for a cultural examination of the structures that mean to alleviate suffering. Sometimes the mechanisms that are built to help those who experience great...
by Miguel Cima | Apr 7, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
If you want to really feel what tension is – muscular tension, dramatic tension, visual tension, the relentless stretching of the body, the psyche, the vast windswept landscape of Iceland and maybe even an imaginary reel of film – then director Guðmundur Arnar...
by Kate Morgan | Apr 3, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
The story of a musician realizing he has a lot at stake as he lives down his past in rural New Mexico might seem excruciatingly ordinary. It’s the stuff of many country songs. Unless those songs aren’t selling records, of course. Then your tour is cut short after...
by Kate Morgan | Apr 2, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
“There’s no end to rules in a girl’s life.” This is perhaps the most memorable line from Alankrita Shrivastava’s Lipstick Under My Burkha, a film that breaks many rules by simply existing. A teenager steals a tube of lipstick from a local shopping mall. Another...
by Miguel Cima | Apr 1, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
Sometimes a risky experiment that doesn’t work 100% is still a very valuable experience and even more worthy than an enterprise which does work, but takes no chances. Italian filmmakers Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro took quite the chance making Mine, their...
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