"Hippo" is now playing in theaters from Kinematics. It's a very unique black-and-white coming-of-age story of two step-siblings co-written and starring Kimball Farley, and also starring Lilla Kizlinger. A CHAT WITH THE DIRECTOR With the release of Hippo, I spoke with Mark H. Rapaport. He is making
Video game adaptions have always proved challenging in cinema. The transfer of playability to watchability has far more failures than successes, and that's not even including the long list of ill advised Uwe Bol films. You would think that videos games, packed with complex protagonists, intriguing
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.