Film Review – Kill Your Darlings

There have been a films made about the Beat Generation, but few have been so obviously targeted to entice a young generation of moviegoers. As common in today’s superhero-shellacked marketplace, “Kill Your Darlings” is an origin story of sorts, heading back into the thick of WWII, where the world received its first lungful of creativity from the likes of Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac — a trio of writers who would go on to challenge literary and cultural stagnancy with their liquid minds. “Kill Your Darlings” dramatizes the development of this artistic liberation, using a tale of obsession and murder as passageway into a private world of intelligence, recklessness, and revolution. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com