Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer is an energetic, pensive, funny and straight-laced romp into the intermingled worlds of marriage counseling and serial killers. Sounds crazy, right? But it’s just crazy enough to work. And it works wonderfully. In fact, you’re gonna have your hands (well, eyeballs) full trying to keep up with the story. The overlong title is evident of the wit and humor evident in this quaint feature. It stars John Magaro, Britt Lower and Steve Buscemi and this small cast shines in what can be likened to NY stage work; it’s intimate, engaging and you can’t take…
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G-S-T Review…Not Fade Away
I left my recollection of David Chase’s Not Fade Away in the theater shortly after walking out during the credits. Maybe that sounds like bad news, and maybe I’m putting myself in a hole by starting off my review on that note, but truthfully, memorability happens to be Not Fade Away‘s biggest Achilles’ heel. Chase hasn’t made a bad film, not by any stretch of the means, but he’s made one that suffers from diminishing returns, one which our connection to slackens and grows hazier the longer that the picture runs. He’s also made a picture about listless, directionless youth; appropriately, Not Fade Away meanders and lazes as much as its…