Looking to travel the world, but on a budget to stay local? Well then welcome to Foreign Friday, where we take international trips from the domestic locale known as your living room. An exploration of the world through its cinema, we don’t let the existence of subtitles scare us away. This week we stay on …
“Best Kept Secret” tells the moving story of a selfless, heroic teacher, out to give the best possible quality of life to her autistic and special needs students as they age out of the system and enter the world.
When Comedy Went to School opens in limited release Friday, September 20. Check your local listings for showtimes. Any fan of comedy has at least heard of the Catskill Mountains. Older comics fondly recall a time when you could try out your material in family atmospheres shrouded in foliage. When a car ride Upstate led …
Here on LonelyReviewer, it is our mission to continually explore all that the film medium has to offer. Foreign Friday is our weekly journey into the realm of the international, putting aside our smart phones to focus more completely on the big screen and the subtitles running along its bottom. Plumbing the vast caverns of …
Hell Baby is available now on VOD and opens in limited release today, September 6. Check local listings for showtimes. The film parody is a complicated creature. Rather than being a binary system, there are now varying degrees of parody. The label alone is now used sparingly and is nearly synonymous with poor quality. The …
I Declare War opens in select theaters today, August 30. Check local listings for showtimes. It is also available on VOD and iTunes. The ripest imagination resides in the mind of a child. There are little cares for what is accepted or cool, and the mind is allowed to explore as far as it can …
Short Term 12 expands nationwide today, August 30. Check local listings for showtimes. It’s nothing new for a film to deal with the trials and tribulations of childhood, or even to explore the experiences of the less fortunate. Nevertheless, it is an exceedingly tough topic to communicate properly. Perhaps it is that adult directors have …
You know how to read (otherwise this all looks ridiculous to you) and you love to watch films, but for some reason or another you rarely put those together. Welcome to Foreign Friday where we respect your intellect enough to expect that you can do both at the same time. Venturing outside the comforts of …
You know that you should watch more foreign films, but you have no idea where to start. It’s going to be okay, Foreign Friday is here to be your leader. Let LonelyReviewer do the necessary digging to let you know not only what’s out in the cinematic world, but also if it’s any good. Sit …
Remakes of cult films have a tough sell. In the hearts and minds of those whose almost-daily conversational lexicon include references like, “This is my boomstick!” or “Lady, I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to leave the store” or “Workshed”, it’s an uphill battle to convince them that your remake is either …