by James Rocchi | Jan 19, 2014 | Festivals, Reviews
Written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier (Murder Party), Blue Ruin begins with the quiet life of a solitary man (Macon Blair) — homeless, jobless, kept even barely afloat by dumpster diving, petty crime and sleeping rough by the Eastern shore in an old, faded...
by James Rocchi | Jan 18, 2014 | Festivals, Reviews
The co-writer, alongside director Joachim Trier, of Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, Eskil Vogt makes his directorial debut with Blind, playing at Sundance 2014. Vogt’s already proven a capacity for both big ideas and intimate moments alongside Trier; with Blind,...
by James Rocchi | Jan 17, 2014 | Festivals
In his wonderful The Colossus of New York, Colson Whitehead notes that the thing that makes you a confirmed New Yorker is when you start noting urban geography in terms of what used to be. That Duane Reade used to be an office building; that Pinkberry used to be a...
by James Rocchi | Jan 17, 2014 | Festivals, Reviews, What's Hot
Directed by Mad Men’s John Slattery from a novel by Pete Dexter, God’s Pocket looks like a slamdunk, can’t-miss Sundance film – a beloved actor behind the camera, adapting a work by a great American novelist, with a cast including Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John...
by James Rocchi | Jan 17, 2014 | Festivals, Reviews, What's Hot
Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. — Dante, Inferno, Canto One At the start of Locke, we see Tom Hardy’s title character Ivan Locke come off a huge construction site;...
