Yeah, not with a fizzle. Well, we’ll see about that. This is my final post as Second Breakfast, a blog I’ve been writing since October 2012. I’ve published every Sunday since then (I even once published from JFK airport). I think, having done that, I have achieved what I wanted to when I started. Without…
Room (2015) The Plot: A young woman, Joy (Brie Larson), and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) have spent his entire life (and a little longer in her case) in captivity, confined to a single small room. Despite these conditions, Joy tries to raise her son as a normal human. They play games, she tells…
Indie movies are a blessing and a curse. Blessing: filmmakers get artistic freedom without the constraints of production companies and big budgets, which allows someone with real vision to explore that vision and not the vision of whoever controls the money. Curse: sometimes that vision isn’t worth exploring in the first place, and the freedom…
