March 2021

Check out the automated podcast here. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2020): If you’ve followed this blog at all, you know by now that I’m a sucker for time-loopy-rom-coms. What that in mind, I was surprised to come across TMoTPT, a time-loopy movie starring Kathryn Newton and Kyle Allen. The two make for a… Read more

Automated podcast here. Nomadland (2020): Chloe Zhao’s The Rider was a revelation and I’m glad to write that Nomadland is an equally accomplished piece of filmmaking. Telling the story of people living on the periphery of what most of us consider society to be, often the tales of actual people, playing versions of themselves, it… Read more

Listen to the (automated) podcast version of this week’s review at Anchor. Fourteen (2019): This is a powerful, lesser known drama about two friends, Mara and Jo, one sober and pragmatic, the other exuberant and quirky, and the frustrating dynamic between them. It almost feels like I am spoiling what the movie is about by… Read more