Beautiful Boy is a haunting, deeply disturbing but beautifully made film with depth and range about a dark subject–the aftermath of tragedy faced by the parents of a seemingly perfect son after he goes on a shooting rampage on his college campus and then turns the gun on himself. Movies exploring the subject of school Read More
When his wife dies after 45 years of marriage, a repressed gay widower comes out of the closet at age 75, finds a young boyfriend, shocks his grown son speechless with his new declaration of independence and enjoys the first brief period of happiness in his wasted life before he dies of lung cancer, four Read More
Sardonic, sporadically amusing but ultimately inconsequential, the British film Submarine is a familiar coming-of-age story about a neurotic Welsh adolescent with a haircut like the Who, Harry Potter bangs and bags under his eyes. In a prologue, he imagines himself dead, with candlelight vigils and weeping student testimonials, but as the story begins, it becomes Read More
