A witty challenge to the coming-of-age genre, Submarine seeks to create an adolescent world that influences the real world. This is to say the protagonist is given the illusion that he has the ability to change the course of his family’s history.   His tactics are harmless espionage conducted routinely in his life. He is well-adjusted yet eccentric. He approaches love in a....

Like Eat This New York, A Man of Taste concentrates itself on the New York food scene. But unlike the former film, the latter shifts its lens on the theatre of the food itself, versus the construction of the stage.   Paul Liebrandt is the chef in particular. The film follows a 6 year arc of his attempt to lead a restaurant using his avant-garde cuisine. His creativity was very warmly....

  Hollywood has a fetish for vilifying capitalism. Albeit an adaptation, The Constant Gardner nevertheless relishes the obtuse phantasmagoria world of profit as shame.   Paralleling conspiracy theorists which interject the notion that pharmaceutical companies have incentive to disease people to sustain their profits versus heal, as if their research and development....