American Fiction Promotion and consumption of antiracist readings was reignited by the summer of 2020. It was a year where people felt that it was “especially important” to read the work of Black authors, specifically those that talk about Black suffering. In “American Fiction” (based on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure), director Cord Jefferson takes apart […]
One Life You may have seen the viral video. He’s an old British man called Nicholas Winton sitting in the front row of a TV studio watching “That’s Life.” The presenter tells the viewers that 40 years earlier, just before World War II broke out and while the Nazis were overrunning Czechoslovakia, he saved hundreds
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut In 1979, when “Caligula” was released in theaters, it was met with a great deal of hype most of it bad. The production of Penthouse Magazine publisher Bob Guccione’s grand experiment to make an adult film that also contained the ingredients of a typical Hollywood spectacle was so fraught that screenwriter
Past Lives When do you know a relationship is real? A shared glance that lingers a little too long, when you can’t stop talking to each other, when you do something together that feels more special than usual or when domesticity has set in and you’re lying next to your partner discussing dinner plans? In
Tuesday In “Tuesday,” actress Julia Louis Dreyfus brings the character of a mother who has lost her child to life with an incredible amount of vulnerability. The film is different from others like it in that it doesn’t have any background music or overdone drama. Daina Oniunas Pusic, the writer and director, uses strange metaphors
Sound of Freedom The movie “Sound of Freedom” has a message that is first and foremost, and a story that comes second. Its message is to get us to care more about child sex trafficking it shows queasy sequences of kids in danger, being carted around by slimy adults, it makes us remember everyone’s faces.
Ricky Stanicky Before permanently adolescent men movies about comedy were taken over by Judd Apatow, Peter Farrelly was there. With his brother Bobby, his movies could be sweetly funny like “Dumb and Dumber” or “There’s Something About Mary” (or in the case of his solo outing in “Movie 43,” a notorious trainwreck). Since then he’s
Fair Play Netflix recently released their high finance romantic thriller, “Fair Play“. With this in mind, it is clear that director Chloe Domont took an interesting approach to the film. Instead of focusing on the relationship between two hedge fund analysts themselves (played brilliantly by Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor), she chose to highlight their
Lee Elizabeth “Lee” Miller (Kate Winslet), a former American model who became a photographer meets her future husband Roland Penrose (Alexander Skarsgård) through her intellectual friends. She grew argumentative right from the start. In just a few sentences, Lee breaks down his attempts at appearing less bourgeoise than he is. Roland responds with an equal
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is never boring but also never really fun. It’s modestly interesting about what happens next, with a mix of imaginative story beats and the nostalgic foundation everyone brings to the theater. It’s maddening choices, promising beats and good vibes for a
