Across the three features he’s made to date, Tyler Taormina has emerged as a true American independent, with an inquisitive eye and extraordinary depth of feeling for adolescent rites of passage that unfold — poignantly, mysteriously, with a sense of romantic possibility — amid the suburbs’ lonely, nocturnal stretches. His subliminally menacing feature debut, “Ham … Read more
In my final dispatch from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, I watched three films about families in crisis. In Edward Burns’s drama “Millers in Marriage,” three fifty-something siblings contend with how relationships morph and change as you age. In Seth Worley’s imaginative film “Sketch,” the shared grief of a father and his children manifests … Read more
Lund’s feature debut, “Eephus,” similarly captures the passage of time through a beloved American pastime, following a men’s recreational baseball game played on their favorite field. Soon to be demolished to make way for an elementary school, this humble patch of green is perhaps nothing special to anyone other than the middle-aged, community-league players who … Read more
Martin Freeman defends Miller’s Girl from backlash after the film courts controversy due to the age gap between Freeman and Jenna Ortega. Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega star in Miller’s Girl, an erotic thriller which recently began streaming on Netflix. Given the subject matter of Miller’s Girl, in which a high-school teacher has an inappropriate … Read more
Despite starring a powerhouse in Jenna Ortega, Miller’s Girl doesn’t manage to be anything other than an “okay” erotic thriller. PLOT: A creative writing assignment yields complex results between a teacher and his talented student. REVIEW: I wasn’t sure what to make of Miller’s Girl when I first heard of it. The idea of a … Read more
“The driving force of this movie for me was to capture the anxiety and fears that so many of us experience as we struggle to find our footing in the world, and to express those feelings through my favorite genre, horror,” Miller told RogerEbert.com. “I think the thing that draws people to this genre more … Read more
After months of tabloid headlines and scandals, there were fears that Ezra Miller’s actions could tank The Flashbut director Andy Muschietti told Deadline that working with Miller was “definitely one of my best experiences with an actor in my whole career.“ “I knew it from the movies I’ve seen with them. It wasn’t until I … Read more