The Contributor (https://thecontributor.org/author/joe-nolan/page/2/)
Noah Baumbach’s new Netflix picture Jay Kelly is a road movie that rambles across Europe, but also between past and present, cataloging the regrets of a man who seems to have everything.
Secret Mall Apartment is a documentary about an odd art project in an inhospitable space. It’s also about contemporary struggles with affordable real estate, and how those pressures affect creative communities.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein delivers Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel as the sprawling gothic epic it was always meant to be.
Steve brings viewers a story about a community of outsiders struggling against the indifference of society and its cold and calculating systems.
Identical twins Danny and Michael Philippou started their filmmaking careers creating wrestling videos in their Adelaide, Australia, backyard when they were 11 years old.
When I saw the trailer for Friendship, I thought it looked like a new, fun Seth Rogen-style comedy about male friendship, male loneliness and male stupidity. Sold!
Steven Soderbergh is famous for also doing the camerawork in the movies he directs, and Presence might be the biggest-ever flex from Soderbergh the cinematographer.
Glancing at the top films currently streaming on Amazon Prime, there’s the sense that we’re already in deep autumn at the height of scary movie season.
The Actor is a slow, quiet and often dreamlike story about memory and place, reality and artifice.
