Actor Brittany Snow (the Pitch Perfect franchise, Hairspray) just about nails it as a writer-director with her first feature, Parachute, a rom-dram set in New York City and co-written with Becca Gleason (Summer ‘03).
This astute, impressively honest portrait of a complicated relationship between Riley (Courtney Eaton from Yellowjackets, who picked up a prize for her performance at SXSW), a young woman with an eating disorder and addiction issues, and Ethan (Thomas Mann, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), a guy disposed toward co-dependency, is perhaps a smidge messy structurally. But then again, so is life. Viewers, especially those in the same demographic as the protagonists, will probably cut the film and its vividly drawn characters some slack as they try to navigate territory thickly peppered with emotional landmines.
Covering a few years in Riley’s mid-20s (which is, in itself, a refreshing choice given so many love stories...
This astute, impressively honest portrait of a complicated relationship between Riley (Courtney Eaton from Yellowjackets, who picked up a prize for her performance at SXSW), a young woman with an eating disorder and addiction issues, and Ethan (Thomas Mann, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), a guy disposed toward co-dependency, is perhaps a smidge messy structurally. But then again, so is life. Viewers, especially those in the same demographic as the protagonists, will probably cut the film and its vividly drawn characters some slack as they try to navigate territory thickly peppered with emotional landmines.
Covering a few years in Riley’s mid-20s (which is, in itself, a refreshing choice given so many love stories...
- 3/20/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hey, "Instinct" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's episode 6. Now that it's officially done and over, it's time to take a look at a few scenarios that will play out in the next, new episode 7. Thanks to the lovely people over at CBS, we were able to get a few teaser descriptions for episode 7 via their press release. So, we will certainly be referencing those in this spoiler session. As usual, we'll start things off with the title reveal. Episode 7 is officially being called, "After Hours." That's not really an original title, but it is fitting for the contents of this episode. It sounds like episode 7 will feature some pretty interesting, possible dangerous,action-filled and dramatic scenes as Dylan and Lizzie go undercover in the erotic underworld! Julian gets a significant visit from a past love and more! We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the...
- 8/4/2019
- by Chris
- OnTheFlix
The history of cinematic comedy is rife with jerks who learn their lessons and grow up, but to win over audiences, those clowns usually had to exhibit at least a glimmer of down-deep goodness — not to mention partake in bad behavior that was actually amusing. The protagonist of the emphatically punctuated “Bruce!!!!” fails on both those counts, coming across as a grating boor who cares only about himself and never manages to say or do anything the least bit funny. Though writer-director-star Eden Marryshow is an agreeable screen presence, his indie feature is unlikely to win over many during its limited theatrical run.
Bruce (Marryshow) is a Brooklyn-based lout and mooch dressed in a collection of preppy outfits, and from the get-go, he rubs just about everyone the wrong way, including his current girlfriend, whom he dumps after she’s spent all night cooking him cupcakes; his exasperated parents; his...
Bruce (Marryshow) is a Brooklyn-based lout and mooch dressed in a collection of preppy outfits, and from the get-go, he rubs just about everyone the wrong way, including his current girlfriend, whom he dumps after she’s spent all night cooking him cupcakes; his exasperated parents; his...
- 3/14/2019
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
Recently, CBS delivered the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Blue Bloods" episode 10 of season 5. The episode is entitled, "Sins Of The Father," and it turns out that we're going to see Frank get very passionate about gathering the evidence needed to put away the creep that shot one of Henry's officers. Porn star murders get investigated, and more. In the new, 10th episode press release: Frank will be determined to finally get the evidence he needs to prosecute the man who shot one of Henry's fellow officers years ago. Press release number 2: Frank will push to find evidence against a suspected cop killer who shot one of Henry’s fellow officers years ago. In the meantime, Danny and Baez are going to investigate a string of murders involving adult film stars, Guest stars feature: Mitch Pileggi (Donald DeCarlo), James Nuciforo (Jim Nuciforo), Michele Hicks (Cat Holloway)Daniel Jenkins...
- 12/28/2014
- by Derek
- OnTheFlix
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