Alana Haim

Film Review: The Drama is provocative, confronting, and thrillingly alive

There’s a moment early in The Drama where everything still feels deceptively perfect. The lighting is soft, the chemistry is effortless, and Zendaya and Robert Pattinson move through their relationship with the kind of easy, enviable rhythm that makes strangers roll their eyes and secretly take notes. It’s a rom-com fantasy – polished, aspirational, and…

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Film Review: Licorice Pizza is joyously subversive look on nostalgia; led by a star-making performance by Alana Haim

Set in 1973 San Fernando Valley, California. Licorice Pizza tells the story of Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), a TV show actor and high schooler who is smitten with the school photographer/volunteer Alana Kane (Alana Haim). The two are aware of the elephant in the room in terms of them being together; being the vast 10-year…

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