Sunday, April 05, 2015

April Reviews

Ben Stiller, Dree Hemingway, Naomi Watts, and Adam Driver in While We're Young.
These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

The Stranger Film Openings: Call the Midlife—Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts Crush Out on Youth in Noah Baumbach's Painful, Funny While We're Young, Effie Gray Stars a Very Sad and Un-
loved Dakota Fanning
, Rabbinical Court Rules No Infidelity Then No Divorce for Long-Suffering Woman in Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Brazilian Actress Shines in New Coen Brothers-Inspired Crime Thriller Kill Me Three Times, Wim Wenders Documentary The Salt of the Earth Is About Photographer SebastiĆ£o Salgado, Melanie Griffith, Her Parents, and Her Siblings Deal with Some Badass Big Cats in Roar, Adult Beginners Says It's Time to Grow Up, Misery Loves Comedy Asks if Happy People Can Be Funny.

Slog/Film Opening count: 602 posts/reviews since 2011.

The Seattle International Film Festival: Work continues
on the 2015 program guide (I wrote five blurbs altogether). 

 

The Stranger Up & Comings: Disappears, Leon Russell, The
Soft Moon and Girl Tears, Lady Lamb, and Sleater-Kinney.

Video Librarian: Irreplaceable, The Red Tent, Low Down, Bob Marley & the Wailers - Easy Skanking in Boston 1978, Penton - The John Penton Story, Bill Maher - Live from DC, Love Hunter, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, A Borrowed Identity, Breakin'-
Breakin’ 2 - Electric Boogaloo [Blu-ray], and Whitney.



Endnote: While We're Young image from A24.