It’s been a dozen years since the Columbine tragedy and almost a half decade since the Virginia Tech shooting, but random outbursts of violence by troubled young male students with easy access to weaponry are still among the most troubling topics that our society is struggling to come to grips with. Less self consciously arty than say an Elephant or We Need to Talk About Kevin, Shawn Ku‘s Beautiful Boy tells the story of Bill and Kate, (Michael Sheen and Maria Bello), a relatively comfortable suburban couple who have entered middle age content but relatively uninspired. First and foremost a searing, naturalist portrait of a marriage on the rocks, the facade of normality and relative leisure that they’ve built for themselves is brutally shattered after their college freshman son Sammy (Kyle Gallner) kills himself and several of his classmates in a largely unexplained crime that leaves a...
- 6/1/2011
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
I'm down to one assignment left this semester, which is great because this week was pretty rough, deadline wise, and a huge week at work so I've been bouncing back and forth between diphenhydramine to get me to sleep and five hour energy to perk me up enough to get through all my work plus eating like shit and it's sort of made me weird and twitchy. Or rather, more weird and twitchy. It's like having a coffee addiction but without the coffee. I think I need to detox this weekend. Anyone have some recommendations for that? Tell me later, right now I have to duct tape my leg down so I stop bouncing my knee compulsively, here's your Thursday night TV:
8:00pm: "The Big Bang Theory" on CBS
"Bones" on Fox
"Brew Masters" on Discovery
"Community" on NBC
"The Santa Incident" on Hallmark. Why do these shitty Christmas TV movies keep happening?...
8:00pm: "The Big Bang Theory" on CBS
"Bones" on Fox
"Brew Masters" on Discovery
"Community" on NBC
"The Santa Incident" on Hallmark. Why do these shitty Christmas TV movies keep happening?...
- 12/10/2010
- by Intern Rusty
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