Black Magic for White Boys
By Paul Weissman July 9, 2020
The flavor is Woody Allen, if he isn’t trying particularly hard.
The flavor is Woody Allen, if he isn’t trying particularly hard.
A dark screwball comedy set in backwoods Alabama.
The entire film hinges on Marc Maron, and he makes it worth seeing.
Taylor Schilling plays a career-obsessed woman with no personal life challenged with watching her awkward niece.
Director and writer Madeleine Olnek has a hoot sending up and tearing down Emily Dickinson’s priggish image.
Distinctly odd and way out of the mainstream. If you are on its wavelength, it’s cinematic gold. If not, you simply don’t know what the hell you’re watching.
Throw in some lesbianism, witchcraft, and supporting performances by Fred Armisen, Adam Pally, and Molly Shannon and you have one of the year’s funniest films.