AwardsWatch - Reviews

REVIEW: ‘The Comeback’ Season 2 Finale

Erik Anderson December 29, 2014

If you didn’t keep up with The Comeback’s unlikely second season, you missed some of the most compelling television of the year. If The Comeback... Read More

REVIEW: ‘Into the Woods’

Erik Anderson December 27, 2014

Stephen Sondheim’s musical treatment of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales has been all but canonized by lovers of “highbrow” musical theatre. As such, the selection... Read More

REVIEW: ‘Annie’ (2014)

Erik Anderson December 17, 2014

It’s been three decades since the last time we saw Annie on the big screen and with a winking poke at the traditionally (white) red-headed... Read More

REVIEW: ‘Still Alice’ (★★★½)

Erik Anderson December 4, 2014

There is a scene early on in Still Alice where Julianne Moore’s Columbia University professor Dr. Alice Howland is giving a speech on linguistics to... Read More

Music Review: Perfume Genius – Too Bright

Erik Anderson October 13, 2014

A term I have never particularly cared for when it comes to discussing music is the term “grower”. Ideally, this term should be applied... Read More

37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Imitation Game, Whiplash, Force Majeure, Foxcatcher

Erik Anderson October 11, 2014

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) Alan Turing won World War II. The creator of the decoder of Germany’s legendary Enigma machine, Turing’s genius and persistence... Read More

37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Homesman and Two Days, One Night

Erik Anderson September 21, 2014

The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) In Tommy Lee Jones’s second directorial effort he gives us the story of a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) who is... Read More

Telluride Reviews: Oscar Hopefuls ‘The Imitation Game,’ ‘Rosewater,’ ‘Wild’

Erik Anderson August 30, 2014

The 41st Telluride Film Festival is underway and classically it’s one of the shortest high profile film festivals around. With just five days to pack... Read More