Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
“Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.” For some people, the reason for existence is relevance. The possible attainment of ubiquity gets them out of bed in […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Frank (2014)
“I say, tell everyone everything. Why cover anything up, right?” Remember those balancing bird toys as kids? The ones where you’d put the beak on the tip of your finger […]
Interstellar (2014)
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.” As […]
Wish I Was Here (2014)
“For the next minute only, you can curse.” Set in hiker friendly Los Angeles, Wish I Was Here is a film that’s as up and down as the bumpy trails […]
Palo Alto (2014)
“I wish I didn’t care about anything. But I do care. I care about everything too much.” High school is a trying time for any youth. Friends come and go […]
Nightcrawler (2014)
“My motto is, ‘if you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket.’” On the road to success, obstacles and blockades oftentimes get […]
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
“I was 17 when my mother disappeared.” White Bird in a Blizzard is a stoplight. In the triad of colors, the movie visually and narratively falls in the tawny, yellow […]
St. Vincent (2014)
“Who pissed in your Cheerios?” What an insanely likable and faulty movie this is. St. Vincent dishes out the humor but never makes it a buffet of comedy, missing too […]
Fury (2014)
“The devil watches over his own.” What makes Fury so effective and so different from others in the war genre is its tragic sense of pointlessness. Set at the end […]
Men, Women & Children
“Before you go I want to give you a pamphlet on the danger of selfies.” Technological advancements are inevitable. We’re a species that survives off of discovery, of finding out […]
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