Author: Film Noise

The Case Against 8 Chronicles the Death of Proposition 8 and the Ban on Same Sex Marriage I remember being very young when my mother took my sister

Palo Alto has a lot of potential, with an authentic young cast shot through director Gia Coppola’s hazy imaginative lens, but seems more concerned with mood than plot

Groundbreaking Vice Docu-Series Takes on Internet Dating Like many things in our modern world, the internet giveth and taketh away. It has given us knowledge (although on a

THERE’S THIS passage in Gemara about whether the angel of death can make a mistake. Gemara is part of the Talmud, and so the—I think about that. You

The Returned now on Netflix In between Liza Minnelli’s blue jumper (or whatever that was) and Ellen’s Samsung inspired mirage our Oscar buzz was greatly diminished by those

Despite what Matthew McConaughey may think heroes are not self-important visions of the future and should not be relegated to cheese-ball montages. The Academy’s salute to “heroes” had

It is the summer of 1987, timeless houses hidden beneath winding country roads, sweeping green trees descending over mailboxes, screen doors leading to overgrown backyards and friendly convenient

The lunch line at James Monroe Middle School was long, often forming two lines between a medal divider so as to face each other while discussing pop culture,

The Canyons was never going to be a good film, with the casting of porn star James Deen and Lindsey Lohan, it seemed that the projects intention was

Isn’t all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed? The difference is that all men go eventually, but I go six o’clock tomorrow morning. I was

Countless books, documentaries and films have given us insight into the financial crisis, with Charles Ferguson’s Academy Award winning documentary The Inside Job as the crown jewel, delivering

When one is willing to sacrifice everything for stardom it seems ambitious, glamorous, and perhaps even poetic. If somehow it doesn’t happen for them it means they didn’t

“He was making millions of dollars, and thought it was because he was smart.” – The Inside Job Let us leave the real world for a moment and

It wasn’t until Alexander Payne’s Election that I began to recognize the hallways and gymnasiums, with its concrete walls and bland off white interior— resembling a prison rather