more by M. Faust
How to Save Us is a psychological drama masquerading as a science fiction thriller. Or maybe it’s the other way around; either way, it’s an independent movie that relishes genre without chaining itself to its expectations.
“It used to be when we’d go to war with a country, we’d go to the country,” says an authority figure in Good Kill. He’s talking about our government’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles—drones—as used to track and kill “enemy combatants” on the other side of the globe.
Did Thomas Hardy invent the Harlequin romance? I wouldn’t make that accusation against the great 19th century novelist whose stories were all set in the rural south of England.
Hollywood never seems more like a treadmill than in summer, when it trots out one big movie per week, usually an animation or special effects extravaganza, that it expects everyone in the world to see.
According to their website, the Movieland 8 theaters in Cheektowaga is closing as of Monday May 11.