by James Rocchi | Apr 24, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
Blue Ruin may be one of the strongest American independent films of 2014: It’s a revenge saga, but it isn’t; the hero isn’t a terse one-man army but instead a shy, silent man driven to desperate, dangerous acts; it isn’t about swift, cinematic...
by James Rocchi | Jan 29, 2014 | Awards, Editor's Picks, Festivals, Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
William Goss (of Film.com, Empire Magazine’s U.S. iPad Edition and TheDissolve.com) joined The Lunch Podcast this week either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning to talk about the rest of the best of the fest, from Listen Up Philip to Cooties, Love is...
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...
