Review by Jacquelin Hipes Based on the cult classic 1966 novel of the same name, Ty Roberts’ newest feature The Iron Orchard follows the life of Jim McNeely (Lane Garrison) as he works his way up from a lowly grunt in the oil fields of West Texas to a millionaire...
Movie Review: ‘The Honor List’
Review by James Lindorf The summer before their first year of high school, friends Piper, Sophie, Isabella, and Honor are inseparable. By senior year, it takes a tragedy to pull them back together. The former best friends must put their differences aside if they want...
Movie Review: ‘The Honor List’
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Four best friends, Piper (Meghan Rienks), Isabella (Sasha Pieterse), Sophie (Karrueche Tran) and Honor (Arden Cho), create a time capsule in their first year of high school. The capsule contains a sort of bucket list of things to do before...
DIFF Movie Review: ‘The Guilty’
Review by Jacquelin Hipes The Guilty, director Gustav Möller’s first feature film, is many things. It’s a one-room crime thriller; it’s a look at the daily stresses of emergency dispatchers; most of all, it’s a spotlight for the considerable talent of lead actor Jakob...
Movie Review: ‘Tully’ Uses Heart And Humor To Shine A Light On Postpartum Depression
Being a new mother is one of those parts of life that society acts like they understand, but nobody really does until they experience it. I personally remember being 19 years old with twins and feeling like I was going to lose my mind from a lack of sleep. But, I only...
Movie Review: ‘Racer And The Jailbird’
Review by James Lindorf Racer and the Jailbird tells the tragic love story of Gino “Gigi” Vanoirbeek and Bénédicte “Bibi” Delhany. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Brussels Belgium, Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts), a highly successful gangster, and Bibi (Adèle...
Movie Review: ‘Tully’
Greetings again from the darkness. Director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody first collaborated on the filming of her debut script JUNO in 2007. Four years later they made YOUNG ADULT with Charlize Theron, and now all three reunite for this latest tip of the cap...
Movie Review: ‘The Cleanse’
Review by Jacquelin Hipes As Paul Berger (Johnny Galecki) affirms at the beginning of The Cleanse, “We all have bad days, right?” It takes more than a bad day to drive someone into the featureless office building that houses a pitch meeting for a weekend retreat...
Movie Review: ’12 Strong’ Blu-ray
Greetings again from the darkness. During the movie, Afghanistan is referred to as “the graveyard of many empires”. Traditionally, January is the graveyard of most new movie releases, so it’s a pleasant surprise when we see an entertaining, well-made and historically...
Movie Review: ‘Most Likely To Murder’
Review by Jacquelin Hipes Movies like Most Likely to Murder tend to settle for a fairly flimsy story, using it as a thin thread connecting a series of interrelated sketches. The connecting element here is Billy (Adam Pally), a goofy high school has-been who regularly...

