It is no spoiler to say that Agnes ends with two people at a diner quietly and earnestly engaged in an intense theological discussion. In fact, one might even suggest that this latest feature from Mickey Reece, which he co-wrote with John Selvidge, is one long extended religious discourse – albeit not always so quiet…
“Whatever you do,” Big City journalist Mary Lady (Storm Steenson) is told by her boss (Jessica Moniere) at the beginning of Jake Horowitz’s Cup of Cheer, before being dispatched to write an article about the ‘world famous Christmas cheer’ of Snowy Heights, “don’t fall in love with some small-town eight-out-of-ten stranger and find the true…
The Vast of Night is mediated, and somebody is watching. Framed as a monochrome episode on Paradox Theater, a Twilight Zone-like television show “found only in a frequency caught between logic and myth”, and set in (fictive) Cayuga, New Mexico in the 1950s, Andrew Patterson’s accomplished feature debut follows two young people who work in…