by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
A Real Pain follows David (Eisenberg) and his cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin) as they travel around Poland with a tour group, seeing where their grandmother lived, the Majdanek concentration camp outside Lublin where she was interred, and their grandmother’s former home.
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
Sasquatch Sunset is the sort of a movie you see on Netflix, remember how you heard about it when it came out, throw it on for 10 minutes, and then say, "Welp, glad I didn't pay to see that one in the theater."
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
Written by Garret Shanley
Starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg
Running time: 1 hour and 37 minutes
MPAA rating: R for language and some sexuality/nudity
by Ian Hrabe
Suburbia gets a bad rap. Speaking from experience, I spent my late teens and most of my twenties railing against the idea of suburban living. That’s a normal and natural reaction to anyone who grew up in the ‘burbs, but once you have kids and your living situation is entirely predicated on school districts, all of that suburban agita goes out the window. You start thinking outside of yourself and, in a sense, you cease to exist as your own person and instead become an extension of your children. Their safety, education and overall well being is paramount to your hopes, dreams and desires. This is a trope you see all the time, and it almost always has a dark twist to it. Blue Velvet, Little Children, Happiness, A Serious Man, The ‘Burbs, the list goes on and on because the only way to make suburbia interesting is by exposing its dark underbelly and the general ennui that haunts these places.
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