Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling) is your average teenager, enjoying a night of partying with her friends after her recent acceptance to MIT for college. Like many teenagers, she drives herself home from the party, and just maybe she should have taken a cab. But it is not her inebriated state that will cause events that […]
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LAFF Film Review: Page One: Inside the New York Times
“Print Media is Dead!” Well, not exactly dead but it is slowly dying. Numerous newspapers across the country have gone out of business since the Internet grew exponentially, providing immediate content distribution via a free source model. Some of the largest newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times (and its sister publications) have been forced into […]
LAFF Film Review: ‘Christopher And His Kind’
The stuffy, bourgeois lifestyle in England was quite the opposite life Christopher Isherwood desired to have as a young man. In Berlin things would be different for the published author, who was a homosexual during a time where such a lifestyle choice had to be hidden at all costs. Christopher and His Kind tells the […]
LAFF Film Review: Tomboy
When you look at the photo above do you see a boy or a girl? Would the child’s name be Michael or Laure? The role of gender identity in Celine Sciamma’s second feature film Tomboy is front and center as her protagonist, a 10 year-old girl, pretends to be a boy over the course […]
LAFF Film Review: ‘Haunters’ (Choneung ryukja)
From Korea comes Director Kim Min-suk’s Haunters. A film centered around two men specifically who both harbor exceptional abilities. Kyu-nam (Koo So) believes himself to be ordinary. Having just lost his job at a junk yard he is seeking employment. He finds work at a pawn shop, and believes this is the moment his life […]