Blog: The Wheel's Still In Spin

Here’s the latest batch of mini movie reviews – two films currently in the theatre. It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010). 16-year-old Craig (Keir Gilchrist) has been suffering from stress and depression. He contemplates suicide. He checks himself into a psychiatric hospital and must stay for a mandatory five days. In that short time, he addresses the sources of his trauma from the expectations of his father to the pressures of the Executive Pre-Professional High School. Makes some beneficial relationships with the other patients, most notably Bobby (Zach Galifianakis) and Noelle (Emma Roberts). It’s Kind of a Funny Story [...]