By Britt Perkins

This movie is pretty. It starts slowly and awkwardly, but watching the muted shades transform the characters and San Francisco into a waking dream is quite enough to hold my attention. This is the Netflix synopsis that I had to work with: “Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah (Wyatt Cenac) and Joanne [...]

By Britt Perkins

I like the way that “mumblecore” rolls off the tongue. It’s a term that has come to define a group of films made in the last decade. They represent the self-reflexivity of a generation as seen through an ultra low budget lens. The Puffy Chair, a film by the Duplass Brothers, is a staple of [...]