Adapted from the stage play of the same name, the film Rabbit Hole examines the ways in which a married couple cope with the loss of their 4-year old son. Moving away from the initial aftermath of such an emotional and life-changing loss the story takes place eight months after his death. It focuses on […]
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AFI FEST Film Review: Rubber
A tire lays abandoned in the desolate desert. Surrounded by an array of other discarded items it is out of place in the natural world. Without warning, the rubber tire begins to move, the sand around it unsettling. The tire stands upright, without any known assistance, and falls again. Like a baby animal taking its […]
Film Review: ‘Guy And Madeline On A Park Bench’
Release Date: November 5, 2010 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Romance, Musical Film Review Production Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, the stunning debut feature from twenty-five year old writer/director Damien Chazelle, harkens back to a time when intimate, docu-realist love stories were common and the lines between film genres werenât so rigid. Chazelle’s […]
Film Rant: ‘127 Hours,’ A Second Opinion
If you were alive and news-conscious during 2003, you know the story of Aron Ralston, a young mountaineer and adventure-seeker who fell through a crevasse while hiking Utah’s Blue John Canyon and wound up stuck with a boulder crushing his right arm. You also know how he got out. Ralston wrote a book about his […]
Film Rave: 127 Hours…as unforgettable as the true story it is based upon.
When Aron Ralston (James Franco) left his home on a Friday evening he planned on a weekend of carefree mountain climbing. What he got was the most horrifying, soul searching, and eye-opening experience of his young life over the next 127 hours. Based on the novel “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” by Aron […]