What can I say? Gerwig knocks it out of the park.
View More LADY BIRD (dir. Greta Gerwig): Philadelphia Film Festival reviewAuthor: Dan Scully
Dan Scully is a film buff and humorist living in a tiny apartment in Philadelphia. He hosts the podcast I Like to Movie Movie and is the proud father to twin cactuses named Riggs & Murtaugh. Also, he doesn't really mind when Batman kills people. Follow him on Twitter and Letterboxd.
GEMINI (dir. Aaron Katz): Philadelphia Film Festival review
There’s something to be said about a mystery that simply crumbles once its secrets are revealed
View More GEMINI (dir. Aaron Katz): Philadelphia Film Festival reviewTHE FLORIDA PROJECT (dir. Sean Baker): Philadelphia Film Festival review
The Florida Project is easily Philadelphia Film Festival’s most buzzed about exhibition.
View More THE FLORIDA PROJECT (dir. Sean Baker): Philadelphia Film Festival reviewFLESH AND BLOOD (dir. Mark Webber): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Featured as part of the Greater Filmadelphia programming block, Flesh and Blood is Mark Webber’s semi-autobiographical tale of addiction and redemption.
View More FLESH AND BLOOD (dir. Mark Webber): Philadelphia Film Festival reviewBLOODY MILK (dir. Hubert Charuel): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Bloody Milk is a sort of genre-less affair which could best be described as “occupational drama
dressed up like a thriller.”
JANE (dir. Brett Morgen): Philadelphia Film Festival review
The term ‘found footage’ is typically reserved for horror, where it describes a specific filmmaking style. With Jane, the stunning documentary about conservationist, Jane Goodall,…
View More JANE (dir. Brett Morgen): Philadelphia Film Festival reviewDispatches from the 26th Philadelphia Film Festival: Capsule reviews from opening weekend
Dan Scully considers I, Tonya; Thoroughbreds, and The Villianness.
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