Based on Emma Donoghue’s best selling novel, Room stars Brie Larson as a woman who, with her five-year old son (Jacob Tremblay), has been locked in a single room for a long time. When she comes up with a risky escape plan, the two will have to contend with big, complicated world outside. Room will […]
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Conversational Trailer: The End of the Tour!
In 1996, Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky accompanied David Wallace Foster on his book tour in support of the just published Infinite Jest. Over that time, Lipsky’s interview for Rolling Stone turned into a real, ongoing conversation. The interview was never published and the tapes went into storage until, following Foster’s suicide in 2008, Lipsky […]
While We’re Young – Coming Of Middle Age!
While We’re Young may not be Noah Baumbach’s best film (I can’t quite decide between Margot at the Wedding, Frances Ha and The Squid and the Whale), but it is certainly his most enjoyable – and commercially viable. It’s the story of a fortysomething couple who begin hanging around with a twentysomething couple and learning […]
AI Trailer: Ex Machina!
What does it mean to be human? What traits do we use to define that? These questions are at the heart of Alex Garland’s (Dredd, 28 Days Later) new movie, Ex Machina. A computer programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) visits a remote research facility at the request of a tech genius (Oscar Isaac) to test a cutting-edge new artificial […]
Sneak Peek: Laggies – Bachelorette Games!
In Laggies, Keira Knightley stars as Megan, a 28-year old woman who has never grown up – despite a really good education. When her high school sweetheart proposes, she freaks out at the thought of so specific a future and takes a week to try to think things through – or not. She crashes with […]
Coming of Age Trailer: Laggies
It seems like, more and more, there are movies devoting themselves to coming age stories about people who should have come of age a decade earlier. The latest in this odd sub-sub-genre is Laggies, about Megan, a twenty-eight year old woman who hides out in the home of Annika (Chloe Grace Moretz) a young friend […]
Enemy’s Tangled Web Scares, Provokes!
Denis Villeneuve’s new film, Enemy, was actually filmed before last year’s Prisoners and – other than sustaining a single, predominant mood – has nothing in common with it except for the presence of Jake Gyllenhaal. Whatever commerciality Prisoners might have had is also absent here – unless commercial has suddenly become a synonym for intelligent, […]