“Do you remember what it was like in the beginning, before all of this?”, Allison (Aubrey Plaza, Life After Beth) will ask near the end of Black Bear written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine whose previous feature, Wild Canaries (2014), also boasted a bestial title. “We were so happy,” Allison continues, “I just want…
The Henry Fool Trilogy first published by Little White Lies “My life’s work. My memoirs. My confession… It’s a philosophy, a poetics, a politics, if you will. A literature of protest. A novel of ideas. A pornographic magazine of truly comicbook proportions. It is in the end whatever the hell I want it to be and…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks Zack Orfman (Dane DeHaan) is grieving. His girlfriend Beth Slocum (Aubrey Plaza) was recently bitten by a snake, and died. They had been going through a rough patch at the time, were maybe even breaking up. The reason she had been hiking alone was that whenever she had asked…