Billed often as horror or dark comedy, Beau is Afraid is a three-hour movie about a man who needs to visit his mother. It introduces us to Beau (Joaquin Phoenix), a middle aged man with abundant anxieties that seem fairly well placed, considering his street appears to be populated with vagrants who want to jump him and …
Trust is Hernan Diaz’s second novel and recently won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It tells the story of a New York financier and his wife in the 1920’s from three points of view – through a novel of the time, in the financier’s own autobiography and from the perspective of the secretary hired to transcribe …
Let’s start with facts: The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky and adapted from the stage play by Samuel D. Hunter, is a dramatic bottle-episode of a movie starring Brendan Frasier as Charlie, a reclusive man teaching literature online who, finding himself facing mortality, wishes to reconnect with his estranged daughter. The only other people to …