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The trouble with the summer movie season is that smaller movies can easily slip from the column of “counterprogramming” to “forgotten entirely”; we’ve got two of those among this week’s new disc and on demand releases, and both are worth a second chance. Plus, a solid Western on Netflix, a terrifying documentary on Hulu, and […]
Enlarge / Taylor (Elizabeth Olson) and Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza) pose for an Instagram shot, to celebrate becoming besties. (credit: Neon) Ingrid Goes West is one of those indie flicks that flies just beneath the radar, the subjects of its savage satire just a little too obscure for the usual comedy treatment. But you shouldn’t miss […]
There’s an excellent dark comedy playing in theaters at the moment, Ingrid Goes West. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta wrote director Matt Spicer‘s film “is not just your average comedy film, but a smart commentary on our social media obsessed world.” It’s a story about obsession, Instagram, bad vibes, and the […]
Characters talking on the phone or looking at a phone can be pretty boring in a movie. That’s not the case with Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West, in which his deeply lonely protagonist, Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza), spends a lot of her time and life on her iPhone. It’s a great character who elicits empathy, laughs, shock, […]
With Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) leading the way in Ingrid Goes West, it’s often tough to predict which direction Matt Spicer‘s dark comedy will go in next. Ingrid goes to great lengths to turn Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) into her best friend so the whole world can see her Instagram. Aubrey’s character searches for a friend in a […]
If you’re looking for some motivation to stop scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and all that nonsense, the indie dark comedy Ingrid Goes West might help cure you of your incessant desire to stay connected to everyone through your phone. The movie, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, follows Parks and Recreation star […]
Ingrid Goes West is the story of a mentally unstable young woman (Aubrey Plaza) who becomes obsessed with a social media celebrity (Elizabeth Olsen) and moves to Los Angeles as part of an insane plan to befriend her in real life. We loved the film when we saw it at the Sundance Film Festival and named […]
Here’s the second trailer for Ingrid Goes West, a satire of Instagram culture and obsession that marks the directorial debut of filmmaker Matt Spicer. Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) plays Ingrid, a pathetic stalker who develops an obsession of an Insta-celeb named Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen). When Ingrid heads across the country to ingratiate herself into Taylor’s life, […]
Deadline reports that Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain will play screen legend Ingrid Bergman in Seducing Ingrid Bergman, based on a 2012 novel by Chris Greenhalgh. The book fictionalizes Bergman’s romance with Hungarian photographer Robert Capa and is set after World War II, continuing when the couple returned to the United States where the […]
Deadline reports that Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain will play screen legend Ingrid Bergman in Seducing Ingrid Bergman, based on a 2012 novel by Chris Greenhalgh. The book fictionalizes Bergman’s romance with Hungarian photographer Robert Capa and is set after World War II, continuing when the couple returned to the United States where the […]
