by John Wildman | Mar 4, 2017 | VOD Reviews
Beth Dewey’s ERASING EDEN follows the title character as she awakens on the morning of her wedding day from a drinking blackout after downing an entire bottle of scotch. Alone, beaten, with a broken jaw, the victim of a probable sexual assault with no memory of what...
by John Wildman | Mar 4, 2017 | VOD Reviews
Ryan Ross’s WHEELER is a drama under the guise of being a documentary about the title character, who is an aspiring singer/songwriter from the small country town of Kaufman, Texas, making a belated journey to Nashville to attempt his lifelong dream of being a country...
by John Wildman | Feb 25, 2017 | VOD Reviews
Gregori Viens’s PUNCHING HENRY follows comedian-with-a-guitar, Henry Phillips as he reluctantly comes to Los Angeles to meet a big TV producer who wants to create a television series starring Phillips as himself, emphasizing the struggles of being a performer. With...
by John Wildman | Feb 25, 2017 | VOD Reviews
Written, directed, and starring Ricky Gervais, DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD catches up with Garvais’s iconic Brent character 12 years after the airing of the BBC mockumentary “The Office” to find the exhausting and somewhat lovable (in spite of himself)...
by John Wildman | Feb 25, 2017 | VOD Reviews
Josh Forbes’s CONTRACTED: PHASE II, is the sequel to CONTRACTED, in which a young woman acquired a sexually transmitted disease that is much more serious than the worst case of syphilis you could imagine, following an impulsive decision to have sex with a stranger at...
by John Wildman | Jan 10, 2017 | VOD Reviews
Jeremy Saulnier’s GREEN ROOM begins by introducing us to a punk rock group (featuring Anton Yelchin and Alia Shawkat) hardscrabbling their way through a tour that involves literally stealing gas to keep their van running and taking whatever gig they can just to keep...
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