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.
Book Review of the Week: "Tuberculosis Is Everything" by John Green
In the kind of weird coincidence that would seemingly come out of film adapted from a John Green story, on the very day I was winding down my time with Green's "Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection," I received word that a longtime friend of mine had, in fact, been diagnosed with TB.
The good news for this friend, I suppose, is that she lives in the United States where both prevention and treatment for TB are both readily available. In all likelihood, she will easily survive this disease.
