SLIPPERY SLOPE: A LOOK INTO HBO’S BAD EDUCATION

Following Cory Finley’s Sundance breakthrough with the sickeningly sharp Thoroughbreds, the obviously talented director took everything up a notch. While his icy eye for the camera is immediate, he also seemed just as gifted as a writer. Every review of his first feature was commending him on the film’s look and feel. Considering the cast […]

Sound of Metal – TIFF 2019 Review

There’s a brief moment in Sound of Metal, the debut film from The Place Beyond the Pines scribe Darius Marder, that stopped me dead in my tracks. Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is sleeping next to a man who is snoring, and the shot is played for laughs. It harshly cuts to Ruben, who’s a metal drummer […]