Tag: parenting
Toronto 2024 Review: RIFF RAFF, Riffs on Parenting, The Holidays, And THE REF
The foul mouthed holiday film is now, more or less, a cinema tradition. From Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation to Harold Ramis’s The Ice Harvest, there are plenty of these anti-Christmas yet still kinda Christmas...
THE COFFEE TABLE Review: Wallowing in Its Own Original Mess
New parents Jesus and Maria, still in the nesting phase after moving into a new apartment, need a new coffee table. Engaging with, or rather enduring, one of the oiliest, least competent, salesmen imaginable, it quickly becomes clear that the...
Review: A BANQUET, A Nightmare of Single Parenting
“We’ve all got problems, darling, don’t be the show.” At about the midpoint of A Banquet, a grandmother frames her granddaughter’s mental health crisis as an elaborate psychodrama. June (iconic character actor Lindsay Duncan, tough as nails with a hint...
Parenting in the Film Industry: Raising Films' Survey Yields Sadly Unsurprising Results
Two years ago, I interviewed director Liv Corfixen on her film My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, about her husband and the making of Only God Forgives. Refn was there as well, and one of the points that had...
Counterpoint Review: AFTER EARTH May Not Be So Apocalyptically Bad After All
In a previous world, M. Night Shyamalan used to be on magazine covers. He was "Hollywood's Hottest New Storyteller." Back in 2002, in anticipation of his next great film, Signs (an unconventionally family-intimate alien invasion yarn starring Mel Gibson), he...
