REVIEW: Rockaway [2019]

The smoke’s getting closer. John (Frankie J. Alvarez) puts on the television to find a replay of a 1994 NBA Championship game with John Starks draining threes. Rather than create a pang of nostalgia for the years when his hometown team was good, however, the image takes him back to a childhood full of tragedy and hope. He was just a kid back then (Maxwell Apple) with an unhealthy infatuation for the former Knicks star and his number three—one his brother Anthony (Keidrich Sellati) did all he could to foster…

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REVIEW: Brooklyn [2015]

“I’m not sure I have a home anymore” I believe a very crucial distinction should be made before going into director John Crowley and writer Nick Hornby‘s adaptation of Colm Tóibín‘s Brooklyn for those unfamiliar with the book. When I watched the trailer it appeared very much like an Oscar-bait romance with a firecracker love triangle between young Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) and two men in Tony Fiorello (Emory Cohen) and Jim Farrell (Domhnall Gleeson). To a certain extent it is, but don’t get fooled into expecting swooning melodrama to…

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