Film Obsessive

2 weeks ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

The title character in Nora, played by writer-director Anna Campbell of You, Me & Her, is a middle-aged mother who finds herself needing to step up to fuller parental responsibilities. Her daughter, Sadie, is beginning kindergarten. Even though she gets a little bit of empty nest, “treat yourself” freedom while the kid is at school, Nora is still overwhelmed and out of her element.

2 weeks ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, have often encountered greatness as its happening. The new works of special filmmakers find ways to stand out and announce their presence as burgeoning or established masters. Those directors create the reputation to become necessary appointment viewing whenever a new film is released, hype be damned or not.

2 weeks ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

At the center of the new Apple Studios streaming film, Fountain of Youth, is a pair of argumentative siblings played by the headlining duo of John Krasinski and Natalie Portman. A union between People magazine’s reigning “Sexiest Man Alive” and the Black Swan Academy Award winner—aging wonderfully in their mid-40s—boasts an intriguing charisma match.

2 weeks ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

The Kiss (Kysset), the most recent film from Oscar-winning Danish director Bille August, a two-time Palme d’Or recipient, has finally arrived in limited theaters for North American audiences. Set during the onset of World War I in August’s native country of Denmark, The Kiss is adapted from novelist Stefan Zweig’s 1939 book Beware of Pity. Thematically, that titular emotion of pity from the source material courses through this film’s every vein.

3 weeks ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, talk often in sidebars on their episodes how much they wholeheartedly miss the film scene of the 1990s. Movie tickets were cheaps, budgets were manageable, new hits were fun to discover, and originality across all sorts of film genres was everywhere.