Liz Licorish’s Film Reviews
- LizFlix Reviews: Who Is KK Downey? (reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
“This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events, locals, or persons, living or dead, is fucking coincidental.”
The opening on-screen disclaimer for Who Is K.K. Downey? makes it pretty obvious that this is a film filled with social satire. Up for laughs is the hipster subculture obsessed with indie music and ironic, [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Phoebe in Wonderland (reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
I saw Phoebe in Wonderland at the 2008 Philadelphia Film festival, shortly after the movie premiered at Sundance earlier in the year. I was slightly wary of seeing yet another cushy fairytale film starring a Fanning sister, but since the movie promised some dysfunctional preadolescent preoccupations, I though it might be worth watching Elle enact [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: First Person (world premiere reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
First Person is an unobtrusive documentary investigation into the lives of six Philadelphia high school students, kids ‘struggling’ against the obstacles in front of and the odds against their realizations of a college education. Through video diary discussions, classroom captures, and football practice footage, the kids and their families attempt to make a case [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Eleven Minutes (world premiere reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
I saw Eleven Minutes during its world premier at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival. The documentary chronicles the efforts of Season One Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll to get his debut collection to the Fashion Week scene at Bryant Park. McCarroll, of course, showed up to promote the movie and show his post feature [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Bad Biology (world premiere reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival
I saw Bad Biology during its premier at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival where its director, Frank Henenlotter, made a stop to pick up the PFF’s Phantasmagoria Award, an honor he said he was lucky to receive after sixteen years without making a film. It’s true the man who brought the world Basket Case 1,2, [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Young@Heart (reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
I saw Young@Heart premier at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival, where its director Steven Walker and some of its senior stars had shown up to promote the movie. I had been skeptical of seeing this film about an elderly rock choir since I’d seen its trailer months and months before. I thought, perhaps, this was [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Snow Angels
Snow Angels is director David Gordon Green’s film adaptation of Stewart O’Nan’s novel about failed and frigid love in the cold and snowy Northeast. At the forefront of the film is the story of Annie (Kate Beckinsale) and Glenn (Sam Rockwell), high school sweethearts separated over his suicide attempt and drunk, born again religious crusade. [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Paranoid Park
Paranoid Park: Portland’s notorious skate boarding underground hangout where soft hearted skateboarder, Alex (Gabe Nevins), looks to fit in among the spot’s tough and intriguing crowd. With his parents divorcing, his friends distant and distracted, and his girlfriend most terribly domineering, Alex decides to take a train ride with a skater he meets at the [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Blindsight
I was terribly excited to see the movie Blindsight; I’d been captivated by the premise of the film ever since I saw one of its stars, Sabriye Tenberken, a German school teacher who lost her sight as a teenager, speak on local television. When her country’s Peace Corps wouldn’t accept her and her handicap, [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Be Kind Rewind
Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover) owns a one of a kind, video only, rental store in Passaic, New Jersey, home of the great musician, Fats Waller. Though Mr. Fletcher touts his building as the birthplace of the great artist himself, Be Kind Rewind Video and Thrift Store is a neighborhood landmark that’s long gone under to [...]
