Coming of age films are often momentous and reflective of the big life changes their subjects depict – think the go-to examples of John Hughes’ 80s work or even the Judd Apatow bro-comedies in the early 2000s. What writer/director India Donaldson brings in her debut film, though, is a quiet sincerity; an in-real-time revelation that more coincides with how these events play out in real life. These life-changing stages never feel too eventful, but their lasting effects do.
Her film…
In the oversaturated world of film, breaths of fresh air are few and far between - when they arrive, we have to cherish them. This is what Mike Cheslik's comedy Hundreds of Beavers feels like: a breath of fresh, hilarious, slapstick-ridden air.
A live-action Wile E. Coyote cartoon but with a twist. In Hundreds of Beavers, an applejack salesman named Jean Kayak finds himself in a bizarre winter landscape. His mission? To outsmart hundreds of beavers (or actors in identical…
