The last showing in a long day of film, complete with a director Q&A afterwards. Worth every minute.
Columbus is a story about children and parents and the things that anchor us to a place. That makes its setting all the more important. Columbus, IN is home to one of the world's best collections of modern architecture, the functional art form that is designed for place and purpose and doesn't travel.
Kogonada's camera often matches that stillness that a building…
Something about Take Shelter's narrative hit close to home. Perhaps its the father in me wanting to protect my kin. Perhaps its something else in my own circumstances that has me identifying with Curtis. Most likely it's both of those things.
The brilliance of Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter is its blurred line between the nightmarish visions Curtis has that describe his own personal storm and the real events of this film. Much of the difference is in the water; raindrops…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Are you crazy? You watched the same film in theaters twice in 5 days? After not having seen a movie in theaters in over a year? With multiple other films still playing that you want to see?
You're damn right I did. With the one person who I had to see it with.
The first review I had was marked containing spoilers, but they were mild at best and in the current environment I deemed it wise to mark that…
Fred Rogers was never content to look at what was going on at the surface of a person. He wanted to look at what was going on in the person's heart. Morgan Neville captures this by looking into the heart of Rogers' work on the latter's famed television program in Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Mister Roger's Neighborhood was a staple of my early childhood, and I don't think I ever thought about what he was doing with the program…
