Damsel (2018; David Zellner and Nathan Zellner) GRADE: C By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, June 29, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. I was thoroughly under the sway of David Zellner’s 2015 breakthrough movie Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, I’m a huge fan […]
Hearts Beat Loud (2018; Brett Haley) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, June 15, at the Landmark Embarcadero in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. Another snuggly non-movie from co-writer and director Brett Haley (I’ll See You in My Dreams and last year’s The Hero), this time about […]
American Animals (2018; Bart Layton) GRADE: C By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, June 8, at the AMC Kabuki 8 and the Landmark Embarcadero Center Cinemas in San Francisco. Writer-director Bart Layton follows up his 2012 debut The Imposter, a documentary with dramatic tendencies about an older man pretending to […]
