Aug 26, 2016
Film Review: Chef (2014)
Writer-director Jon Favreau of Elf, Iron Man, and now The Jungle Book fame penned, directed, and stars in Chef, a dramedy about a...
Aug 19, 2016
A Conversation on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ft. Elaine
As you, my dear friend and reader, probably know, I am a huge fan of Harry Potter. So, of course, when the newest book came out, I had to...
Aug 12, 2016
Film Review: Finding Dory (2016)
As the much anticipated sequel to Pixar’s Finding Nemo, Finding Dory follows the ocean-dwelling trio of the first film as the titular...
Jul 29, 2016
Film Review: The Hateful Eight (2015)
The Hateful Eight, billed as director Quentin Tarantino’s eighth feature film (out of an alleged ten he promises to make before...
Jul 15, 2016
Film Review: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums is an ensemble comedy-drama about a family of dysfunctional geniuses and their insensitive, absentee father, the...
Jul 1, 2016
Film Review: Love and Friendship (2015)
Based on a lesser-known fiction by Jane Austen titled Lady Susan, the film Love and Friendship stars Kate Beckinsale as an English lady...
Jun 17, 2016
Film Review: Calvary (2014)
Calvary is a grim story about a weary Catholic priest named Father James (Brendan Gleeson) who receives a death threat, yet continues to...
Jun 10, 2016
Film Review: Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Directors Joel and Ethan Coen craft yet another sparkling comedy in Hail, Caesar!. The film stars a cast that includes Josh Brolin,...
Jun 3, 2016
Exhibition Review: On Your Mark II and Visualizing a Culture for Strangers at the Varley Art Gallery
I was pleased to catch the Artist Talk with Ed Pien on May 29, prior to the opening of the Varley Art Gallery’s summer exhibitions, which...
May 20, 2016
Review: Rams (2015)
Two curmudgeonly Icelandic sheep farmers named Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór JúlÃusson) haven’t spoken to each other...