If The Last Picture Show is a movie about savoring your precious misery, Texasville is a movie about having a bad case of the blues. Read More
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Ethan Warren is the writer-director of the independent feature film West of Her, and the recipient of the 2018 Boston Project playwriting fellowship at SpeakEasy stage company. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, his writing has been featured at New Limestone Review, Furious Gazelle, and the Stage-It! 10-Minute play anthology. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Caitlin, and their children, Nora and Liam.
Tyrannosaurus Death! is a film that grabbed me, shook me, and spat me out with a new perspective on the balance between grace and pain that comprises this life. That’s a pretty good value in just 15 minutes. Read More
On the one hand, everything we do may be meaningless. Oblivion may be the only truth. But on the other, maybe it’s exactly this ultimate despair that makes our all our everyday actions essential. Read More
It can be so frustrating to have parents, particularly at mealtimes. Read More
Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf is the story of a marriage crumbling in a void. Read More
Lots of comedies are funny because they’re goofy, but Step Brothers is funny for the liminality of the world in which it takes place, a world hovering between live-action cartoon and kitchen-sink reality so precariously that it almost seems to violate the laws of comedy physics. Read More
In the world of Jarmusch’s film, the purpose of work lies not in external achievement, but in the personal satisfaction of doing. Read More
Pet Sematary is not a movie that cares about your sensitivities. What it does care about, to the point of obsession, is bodies—and the horrors that can befall them. Read More
Fahrenheit 451 is often hailed as a dire vision that’s only become more relevant with time. And yet there is so little in this story that I recognize from the world around me. Read More
Punch-Drunk Love—Paul Thomas Anderson’s fourth film, released when he was just 32 years old—puts you on uncertain footing from the very first frame. Read More
don’t often remember my dreams. But I often wake up uneasy. And the stronger that unease, the better I can... Read More
The 10 Best Supporting Performances in The Informant! Read More