Writer/director Shawn Linden's The Good Lie is a revenge thriller that should work, but it maddeningly wastes a strong, if somewhat simplified core idea on a thoroughly useless framing device that sinks the whole thing.
It may not feel like it quite yet, but summertime is right around the corner, and you know what that means - camping and campfire stories! With that in mind, we've got a very special treat for you. Dork Shelf is giving away 10 double passes to a very special screening of The Good Lie, starring actor Thomas Dekker.
What do you get when you cross a Hollywood-style college sex comedy with a bizarre sci-fi-demon-cult adventure mystery? You get the latest film from Gregg Araki, Kaboom. Returning to the form of his earlier films such as The Doom Generation, Araki takes the audience on a strange ride through one teenager’s search for his sexual identity and investigation of a possible demon cult.