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MISSING

January 22, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MISSING

Full of slick misdirections and clever plot twists, MISSING rises above the novelty of its online footage subgenre to take its place as a solid mystery-thriller. Not that it doesn’t take excellent advantage of the limitations of its chosen subgenre.  Au contraire, it incorporates those very limitations as integral plot points. In it we find… Read More »

Tagged With: Cartagena, Colombia, home alone, mother-daughter, online footage, rager

PAPER SPIDERS

May 11, 2021 By 1 Comment

PAPER SPIDERS

Husband and wife writing team Inon Shampanier and Natalie Shampanier wrote PAPER SPIDERS from personal experience, which gives it that extra gloss of authenticity. While it does not reflect the factual truth of the struggles they had with Natalie’s mother and her diagnosis of persecutory delusional disorder, it does convey the emotional truth of seeing… Read More »

Tagged With: high school, mental illness, mother-daughter, paranoia, persecutory delusional disorder

THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

July 3, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

In Hirokazu Koreeda’s last film, the Oscar®-nominated SHOPLIFTERS, he incisively examined the ethics of capitalism, and its effects on one poverty-stricken, yet devoted, ragtag family ingeniously doing battle with a system designed to keep them down economically. In THE TRUTH, he moves the action from Tokyo to Paris to examine the ethics of veracity on… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, film-with-a-film, memoir, mother-daughter, Paris

WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

August 21, 2019 By Leave a Comment

WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

Based on the novel by Maria Semple, WHERE’D YOU GO  BERNADETTE is a tale of artistic vision quashed by its run-ins with the crasser elements of reality, and the consequences of living the resulting inauthentic life with Cate Blanchett perfection as Bernadette, the eccentric anti-social wife of a Seattle Microsoft bigwig. Her skirmishes with her… Read More »

Tagged With: antarctic, architecture, artistic block, book to screen, mother-daughter, mudslide, Seattle

HEREDITY

June 12, 2018 By Leave a Comment

HEREDITY

The only thing wrong with HEREDITY is that is bound to spawn increasingly inferior installments in a new franchise that is as inevitable as its protagonists’ descent into madness.  That aside, this deeply disturbing horror film does not need the supernatural in order to worm its way into the darkest recesses of your psyche where… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, horror, inheritance, insanity, mother-daughter

COLUMBUS

August 12, 2017 By 1 Comment

COLUMBUS

Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) notes early on that one of the many architectural treasures of the titular COLUMBUS features elements that are off-center, but are still in harmonious balance. It is, as with so much else in this emotionally explosive but soft-spoken film, an exquisitely realized metaphor.  A tale of seeming opposites with surprising and… Read More »

Tagged With: architecture, Columbus, father-son, illness, mentee, mother-daughter, Ohio

SNATCHED

May 10, 2017 By 1 Comment

SNATCHED

Amy, we hardly knew ye

Tagged With: accidental murder, Columbia, Ecuador, kidnapped, mother-daughter

OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL

October 23, 2016 By Leave a Comment

OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL

I was not a fan of the original OUIJA, which I found to be predictable in plot and pedestrian in execution.  Its prequel, however, OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, is (almost) the exact opposite.  Set in 1967, it reveals what happened in that spooky craftsman cottage when Aunt Lina (Annalise Basso) was just a high-school sophomore… Read More »

Tagged With: 1967, haunting, horror, mother-daughter, ouija board, prequel, seance, spirits, widow

THE MEDDLER

June 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE MEDDLER

(A version of this review first appeared in The New Fillmore) The complicated bond between mother and child has never had a better, a funnier, or a more heartwarming cinematic incarnation. Unconditional love and setting boundaries drive the comedy of THE MEDDLER. Written and directed by Loren Scafaria from her own experiences with an adoring… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, fried egg, Los Angeles, mother-daughter, starting over, widowhood

PALI ROAD

May 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

PALI ROAD

The challenge when talking with director Jonathan Lim and co-producer Daxing Zhang about PALI ROAD is making sure that we don’t reveal any of the wonderful twists and turns this psychological thriller takes. The story of a woman who wakes up from a coma to a life she doesn’t recognize, but peopled with familiar faces… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate reality, amnesia, car accident, hallucination, Hawaii, kahuna, mother-daughter, mother-son, mystery, naupaka flower legend, Pali Road, romance, tough love. coma, Xi Shi Legend

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