Jesse Catherine Webber

Oct 28, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Jesse Catherine Webber |Morris Yang |Luke Gorham

Robin Wood begins the introduction to his 1965 book Hitchcock’s Films with a question: “Why should we take Hitchcock seriously?” It’s a deceptively simple query; as I glance at my book shelf, I see no less than 10 books on the filmmaker — Wood’s Hitchcock’s Films Revisited; Rohmer & Chabrol’s Hitchcock; A Hitchcock Reader, edited by Deutelbaum & Poague; Durgnat’s A Long, Hard Look at Psycho; the canonical long-form interview Hitchcock/Truffaut; Walker’s Hitchcock’s Motifs; Krohn’s Hitchcock...

Sep 17, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Jesse Catherine Webber |Luke Gorham

In his new film Being John Smith, premiering alongside Jean-Luc Godard’s for-real-this-time last two films in TIFF’s Wavelengths program, filmmaker John Smith starts with a simple idea, the exceptional commonness of his name, and layers on contradiction after contradiction, accomplishing both deep vulnerability and unusual universality. He begins with a personal history, structured around the childhood nicknames that augmented his indistinct given name.

Sep 15, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Jesse Catherine Webber |Luke Gorham

Over the course of three seasons, I Think You Should Leave has cemented Tim Robinson as a genuinely iconic comedic performer. With episodes under 20 minutes packed with sketches lending themselves to repeated viewing and intense memeability, Robinson’s distinct comedic and literal voices have pervaded culture.

Sep 11, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Jesse Catherine Webber |Luke Gorham

Credit: Courtesy of TIFF/Searchlight Pictures In the opening moments of Nightbitch, director Marielle Heller appears alongside her star Amy Adams, both playing frustrated mothers in a grocery store. Both Heller and Adams are themselves mothers, and Adams’ unnamed character, credited as Mother, is also an artist.

Sep 6, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Jesse Catherine Webber |Luke Gorham

Credit: Venice International Film Festival The name most likely to catch the attention of cinephiles in the credits of Shahab Fotouhi’s first feature Boomerang is co-editor Aleksandre Koberidze, who broke out in 2021 with his film What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? The two films both begin with a charming chance encounter, in the case of Boomerang between two teenagers.