David Robert Mitchell
Movie Review: It Follows
Horror is the most formulaic genre in cinema – or, perhaps, simply the one in which filmmakers seem most willing to rely on formula. The genre often descends into a spiral of derivative shtick, with the occasional good or great film spawning ten knockoffs that then give rise to another fifty of their own imitators. See Paranormal Activity, a novel and creepy film (a Blair Witch Project copycat its...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Myth of the American Sleepover
Billed as a coming of age film, The Myth of the American Sleepover by first time writer/director David Robert Mitchell shows some promise with a script that almost captures an understanding of a time most of us will fondly remember but doesn’t do so with enough imagination and emotion to get us to buy into what he is selling: a loss of teenage innocence. The film opens as Maggie (Claire Slom...[Read More]