GIFF Review: ‘Kajaki: The True Story’, Starring Mark Stanley and David Elliott
War speaks to a lot of people. The ones fighting in it, the civilians, and a plethora of other people directly or indirectly affected. It touches so many, and sometimes…
Browsing: Film Festivals
GIFF Review: ‘Spy’, Starring Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jason Statham, and Jude Law
Melissa McCarthy’s comedic career has sadly been hit or miss as of late. Last year’s The Heat was a fun take on the buddy cop comedy with the insertion of…
Film Fest DC Review: ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’, Starring Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke, and RJ Cyler
Giving a heavy topic some humor is really hard. John Green managed to do that with The Fault in Our Stars and still manage to make it tear-inducing and realistic…
Tribeca Review: ‘Far from Men’, Starring Viggo Mortensen and Reda Kateb
It might surprise no one that Viggo Mortensen, a man of many talents, also speaks French. And he more than proves it in French director David Oelhoffen’s Far from Men…
Tribeca Review: ‘Bridgend’, Starring Hannah Murray, Josh O’Connor, and Steve Waddington
Between 2007 and 2012, there were approximately 79 unexplained suicides in the Welsh valley of Bridgend County, where teenager Sara (Hannah Murray) finds herself moving to when her father Dave…
DCIFF Review: ‘Littekens’, Starring Tamara van Sprundel, Chantal Demming, and Fred van Kaam
When you talk to children and see the world through their eyes, it’s easy to see why we would want them to stay young and innocent for as long as…
DCIFF Review: ‘Three Windows and a Hanging’, Starring Irena Cahani and Luan Jaha
There are some topics that are just hard to talk about as openly as others. Some either rub people the wrong way, make them angry, passionately outspoken, or all of…
Mae’s Top 5 Movie Picks from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival
It’s hard to believe that the 2015 Sundance Film Festival is officially over. I’m still recovering. From waiting in long lines, celebrity sightings (which included, Kristen Wiig, Cobie Smulders, Adam…
Sundance Review: ‘Chorus’, Starring Fanny Mallette and Sébastien Ricard
Grief is a hard thing to go through and everyone always deals with it differently. Most films never truly flesh out the different stages of grief, or seek to fully…
Sundance Review: Sebastian Silva’s ‘Nasty Baby’, Starring Kristen Wiig and Tunde Adebimpe
Dark and light is often a hard wire to walk. You have to know how to balance the two without diving too far into either if both is what you…