TOGETHER is an impudent entry into the body horror genre in which the fusing together of two people becomes a, ahem, visceral metaphor for intimacy before venturing gamely into a novel definition of a happy ending. Working on two levels at once, the result is a film that provokes and repels all while considering the… Read More »
ALL OF US STRANGERS
What is real? Is it the physical world around us that, as Lily Tomlin once put it, is really nothing more than a collective hunch, or is it the emotional world we construct for ourselves from memory, and pain, and hope? Andrew Haigh’s enigmatic meditation of a film, ALL OF US STRANGERS considers just that… Read More »
HONEY BOY — Alma Har’el Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. The first thing I wanted to talk to Har’el when we spoke on October 10, 2019, was how tender the film. This despite portraying the harrowing, real-life childhood and adult struggles with anger and addiction of the film’s writer and co-star, Shia LeBeouf. Entwining parallel stories of LeBeouf’s… Read More »