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 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...