alcoholism
Reteaming with star Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round probes and explicates the psychological toll liquor can bear on us.
There is a catharsis In El Father Plays Himself that is achieved through witnessing truth, witnessing the process – one that is not easily forgotten.
Tater Tot & Patton doesn’t play by those rules. Instead, we are given an odd, slow burn with endearing performances and a lesson to be learned.
Bradley Cooper’s take on A Star is Born is more than a tragic love story: it’s a powerful depiction of being the person next to an addict.
With William H. Macy taking the director reins this week, episode five of Shamless gives viewers glimmers of the familial ties that keep this show from going off the deep end.
While providing some fun, the “Weirdo Gallagher Vortex” will keep your attention, though it doesn’t really feel like a step forward, leaving viewers waiting for the Shameless we’ve come to love.
Even though this week’s episode goes a bit downhill, Shameless has plenty of laughs as the Gallaghers try to navigate life, with plenty of room for the cast to shine.
“Are You There Shim? It’s Me, Ian” doesn’t deliver the sort of Shameless panache that the earlier seasons had, but it bodes promising.
Doubtful proves to be an intelligent, intimate, and potent first feature for Israelian director Eliran Elya.
With 30% of British children living in poverty, director Candida Brady’s film couldn’t be timelier, depicting the harsh realities of young Britons’ lives with an unapologetic sincerity.
Diablo Cody’s directorial debut was made back in 2013, yet got buried so deep it’s easy to not know it even existed. After watching Paradise, it became clear why it never got a proper release five years ago.
Chavela is a documentary that is an introduction to the legendary ranchera singer as well as a fond remembrance for those who knew her well.
At times brimming with invention and at other moments leaving you confused as to who this is for, Nine Lives doesn’t fully deliver.
The inner urge for survival is the most primitive of all impulses. For the longest time, sex was believed to be the driving force that pushes people, unconsciously and fully-cognizant, towards certain results in life. But after WWII especially, psychologists and holocaust survivors began to revisit the idea, and psychoanalysts took the obvious cue from Darwin:
The opening of Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha is intense. A few seconds in, we are staring eye to eye with Krisha, the titular character (Krisha Fairchild). She is looking at us, and we are looking right back.