Monday, August 08, 2016

August Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

The Stranger Film Openings: An Improv Troupe Faces the Future in Don’t Think Twice, You Really Must See Our Little Sister, Gentrification Is Not Easy in the Terrific Little Men, The Intervention Shows the Director Has Got the Right Stuff, R&B Star Usher Successfully Plays Sugar Ray Leonard in Movie About Panamanian Boxer, and Black Kids Rock Hard in Breaking a Monster.

Slog/Film Opening count: 666 posts/reviews since 2011.

The Stranger Music Things to Do: Marissa Nadler, Wrekmeister Harmonies, and Muscle and Marrow, Globelamp, Takashi Miyaki, DJ Mermod, and DJ Tomi, Parquet Courts, and Gap Dream (which was ultimately canceled). 

 

Video Librarian: Dugong & Din - A True Story of a Boy and His 
Sea Cow, Aquí, Ní Allá, Shout Gladi Gladi, Dear Eleanor, Endgame [Blu-ray], Wedding Doll, L’Attesa, No Men Beyond This Point, Songs My Brother Taught Me, Summertime, and Parched.

 
Endnote: Image from Sony Pictures Classics.