Tag: Tom Bower
Light of My Life | Review
If You’re a Boy or a Girl: Affleck Explores Gender in the Post-Apocalypse
Nearly a decade after his stunt documentary I’m Not Here (2010), actor...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #48. Casey Affleck’s Light of My Life
Light of My Life
Conceptually it could have added so much to the performance art and art imitating life discourse, unfortunately, Casey Affleck's directorial debut...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #48. Casey Affleck – Light of My Life
Post Manchester by the Sea, in February of 2017, Casey Affleck began filming Light of My Life in British Columbia’s Okanagan valley. Significantly slowing...
Criterion Collection: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Blu-ray Review
Criterion revisits the neglected 1982 indie classic from Robert M. Young, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, a revisionist, recuperative Western which formulated the tragic...
Raising Cain | Blu-ray Review
Genre films dealing with multiple personality disorder (or now correctly known as dissociative identity disorder) tend to be a bit problematic, usually leaning into...
Lamb | Review
Strangers With Cabins : Partridge’s Uncomfortable Sophomore Film
Returning behind the camera for the first time since his 2000 debut indie film Interstate 84, actor...
Digging For Fire | Review
Dem Bones: Swanberg’s Mellow Examination of Married Life
A married couple’s weekend apart turns into the sort of mildly enterprising exploration of what happens when...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Digging For Fire
Guess who's turning 10? Joe Swanberg has had a "fire" in his belly for, give or take a decade, and his latest in the...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Webber’s The Ever After
Not that it is shrouded in mystery, but Mark Webber has a distinct way of working that might be regarded Cassavetes-like for his realism...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kimberly Levin’s Cantuckee
Before it was known as Cantuckee, Kimberly Levin's Land of Tomorrow successfully found some coin via Kickstarter and then had stints at the IFP...
