I'm in no way asserting that Michael Pearce's Echo Valley is a brilliant film. It's not.
Echo Valley is, however, a good film elevated to immense watchability by the quality of Pearce's focused and patient directing, Brad Ingelsby's gifted storytelling, and an ensemble cast bringing their A-game to this retro-vibed thriller with amped up emotional intensity and enough suffocating thrills to keep you watching from beginning to end.
"The Loss of a Lifetime: Grieving Siblings Share Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope" invites 26 authors to share their stories of sibling loss. The perspectives are quite diverse, from estranged siblings to complicated grief to deaths by suicide and deaths via traumatic incidents among many more. These are stories of love, loss, and hope with which many of us will identify having joined a sort of club we never asked to join.
