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THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA MOVIE REVIEW In 1984, an unemployed ice cream truck driver named Michael Larson went on the game show Press Your Luck and broke the record for most money won on an American game show. That true story is the basis for The Luckiest Man in America starring Paul Walter Hauser […]

PAINT MOVIE REVIEW What if Bob Ross wasn’t who you thought he was? What if he was embroiled in some sort of seedy scandal? That’s the thought that led writer/director Brett McAdams to create Paint, the new IFC film starring Owen Wilson as Carl Nargle, a Bob Ross analog. Carl has hosted Burlington, Vermont’s number one […]

SPIN ME ROUND MOVIE REVIEW Writer/director Jeff Baena, whose previous work includes the comedies The Little Hours and Life after Beth, returns to transport us to the enchanted Italian countryside where romance and wonder lie in wait…well, that’s certainly what all the travelogues say, right? Starring and co-written by Alison Brie, Spin Me Round tells […]

THE NOVICE MOVIE REVIEW In Lauren Hadaway’s writing and directorial debut “The Novice”, college freshman Alex Dall (Isabelle Fuhrman) joins in her university’s rowing and is shown to be very motivated and competitive, often to physical and psychological levels of obsession to be on the top varsity boat. It’s all she cares about and that […]

UNDINE MOVIE REVIEW Based on the myth of Undine, Christian Petzold creates a movie about romance, betrayal and very specific German architecture lessons. Undine (Paula Beer) is a woman who has been wronged in a past relationship, but she meets a new partner named Christoph (Franz Rogowski), an industrial diver, and the two hit the […]