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‘This Closeness’ Review: A Couple and Their Airbnb Host Get Acquainted in an Astute Dramedy of Awkwardness Building on the success of her well-received debut feature Actual People, writer-director-actor Kit Zauhar’s This Closeness further explores the deviously twisty nuances of angst as experienced by people in their 20s nowadays. The plot unfolds over a weekend…
‘Air’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Ode to Michael Jordan Is Affectionate and Involving, Even When It Fails to Convince Ben Affleck’s Air operates in a respectful and deeply reverential register when it comes to its subject, his family and the sport in which he made his legacy. The film, which premiered at SXSW, chronicles the tense Nike…
Ben Affleck Premieres ‘Air’ at SXSW: “Most Important Night of My Professional Life” Ben Affleck screened the world premiere of his new film Air at South by Southwest Film & TV Festival in Austin on Saturday and quickly made it clear how much he wanted his Amazon Studios project to succeed. “Tonight is the most…
Viola Davis on Playing Michael Jordan’s Mom in ‘Air’: “I Wanted to Know More About This Woman” When Ben Affleck met with Michael Jordan about Air, the director’s new movie that highlights a key moment in the basketball icon’s story, Jordan had one request. “Viola Davis. That’s my mom,” the filmmaker recalled to The Hollywood…
‘Joy Ride’ Review: Ashley Park and Stephanie Hsu in a Raunchy, Rowdy Comedy With Genuine Heart Adele Lim’s Joy Ride is a raunchy and propulsive feature directorial debut set in motion by a sweet chance meeting. It’s 1998 and Lolo (Chloe Pun) and her parents have just moved to White Falls, a suburban and very…
‘You Can Call Me Bill’ Review: Pensive Doc Shows a Different Side of William Shatner At first glance, the combination of director Alexandre O. Philippe and William Shatner does not seem like an inherently harmonious pairing of documentarian and subject. Philippe is a master of inquisitive cinema essays, examining films like The Exorcist, Alien and…
‘Late Bloomers’ Review: Karen Gillan Stars in a Slight Odd-Couple Friendship Dramedy Since the beginning of the mumblecore movement in the 2000s, independent cinema has been saturated with stories of young (often white) people in their 20s in a state of arrested development. For these people, adulthood is a playground characterized by risk-taking and pontificating…
Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu Take a Raunchy Road Trip in ‘Joy Ride’ Trailer Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu are four unlikely friends taking a wildly debauched trip to Asia in Joy Ride, a friendship comedy from the producers of Neighbors and Lionsgate. Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Adele Lim’s directorial…
‘Black Barbie: A Documentary’ Review: A Fascinating but Unfocused History of a Groundbreaking Doll It is part of American lore on race and progress: In the 1940s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark set out to study the psychological effects of segregation on Black children. The psychologists conducted a series of experiments famously called the “doll test,”…
William Shatner Explains How He Landed ‘Star Trek’ Role as Captain Kirk William Shatner recalled how he managed to land the role of Captain James T. Kirk on the original 1966 Star Trek series. During his keynote interview at South by Southwest in Austin on Thursday, Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League asked Shatner about how…