SIFF Take: NUTS!
NUTS! is an exuberant, improbable documentary about a fellow—J. R. Binkley—who claimed to be able to cure impotence by grafting goat testicles onto human ones.…
Recommended SIFF: The Pistol Shrimps
You’ll laugh! You’ll keep laughing! You’ll want to go join a rec league! The Pistol Shrimps is equal parts hysterically funny and legit inspirational. A…
SIFF Take: The Intervention
In actor Clea DuVall’s confident directorial debut, a group of thirtysomething friends and their partners gather for a Big Chill-esque weekend retreat with a decidedly…
Recommended SIFF: The Tenth Man
You’ve got the middle-age doldrums. You plan to take your girlfriend to go visit your father in Buenos Aires. But your girlfriend bails. You show…
Recommended SIFF: Girl Asleep
Oh, such a fun and funny film is Girl, Asleep! It’s got lots of Wes Andersonian mega-quirkiness, but derivative it’s not. Shy Greta just started…
SIFF Take: Alone (Hon-ja)
[embed]https://youtu.be/87avWfyZ0tk[/embed] Oof, what a mess of a movie. The first part feels like it might be a worth-it kind of mess. It’s like a jumbly…
SIFF Take: Concerto: A Beethoven Journey
[embed]https://youtu.be/6u4hdY3ATRk[/embed] Ludwig van Beethoven, in his early career, was far better known as a pianist than as a composer. He began performing when he was…
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
This weekend, SIFF Cinema Uptown is showing one of my favorites from SIFF 2014. It’s about… there’s this very old man, see? And he gets…
SIFF Take: Shaun the Sheep
When my kiddos were too young to watch the highfalutin educational stuff we watch now—Nature, Nova, American Ninja Warrior—Shaun the Sheep was my very favorite…
SIFF Take: The Dark Horse
The Dark Horse is based on the true story of Genesis Potini, a bipolar Maori former chess champion. His older brother, the only one who…