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SORRY, BABY MOVIE REVIEW
Most films that deal with overcoming trauma do it either as it being represented as a growing black gulf of evil (see at least half the horror films made in the last 5-10 years), or with a good deal of saccharine. The debut film from writer/director/star Eva Victor is something new. Agnes (Eva Victor) has just been promoted to full-time English professor at the same college she went to school at. She lives by herself in a cozy home and is looking forward to a visit from her best friend from her student years, Lydie (Naomi Ackie). The two were obviously very close and Agnes is very funny and likable, if not a bit defensive and barbed at moments. It’s not long before the film goes back to their school days with the ominous onscreen title “The Year With The Bad Thing”. I don’t want to give away too much, but there is a sexual assault on Agnes (not one that is shown in the film, but you have enough of the lead-up, and the vacating of the scene of the crime to figure it out). Sorry, Baby focuses on Agnes’ wit, intelligence, and reluctance to engage with how the event affected her. What surprised Chris, Wright, Beau, and Marco so much was how deftly, realistically, and even humorously Eva Victor pulls it off in every way she is involved. Victor is a comedian and righteously funny social media presence on the website Reductress; what she has put out here is that maybe once in a decade film that quietly announces a major new and original talent to film, that will be much louder once more people experience it, we hope.
DIRECTED BY: Eva Victor
STARRING: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack, E.R. Fightmaster, Hettienne Park, Natalie Rotter-Laitman, Cody Reiss, Jordan Mendoza, Liz Bishop, Conor Sweeney, Alison Wachtler, Jonny Myles, Pricilla Manning, Celeste Oliva, Chhoyang Cheshatsang
YOUR REVIEWERS
Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Deliberations of Doom)
Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar and theater management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others).
Wright Sulek (The Other Boss, Trash in the Can, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)
Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox. As of 2024, Wright has now been inducted into the Austin Film Critics Association as well as co-owns the One of Us network with Chris Cox.
Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)
By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.
“I’m not a film critic. I just play one on the Internet.”
Beau Paul (Highly Suspect Reviews, The Original Gentlemen, Screener Squad)
Beau Paul is an Austin native, an actor, and a writer. Sometimes all at once! Previously he has attempted to be an internet entertainer (the funny ha-ha kind, not the naked moneymaking kind) at Spill.com, and now here on OneOfUs.net. You can read his pithy witticisms and the retweeted material of funnier, cleverer people on Twitter or Facebook, and can buy him stuff on Amazon.
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