REVIEW: Selma [2014]
“God was the first to cry” A civil war waged on Alabaman soil in 1965 whether President Lyndon B. Johnson felt holding off on a bill negating the South’s tactics to bar African American citizens from...
View ArticlePicking Winners at the 87th Annual Academy Awards
Things look pretty cut and dry where the Academy is concerned in 2015. The Oscars are always a somewhat watered-down look at what really mattered in the past year of cinema and this installment is no...
View ArticleTop Ten Films of 2014: A deluge of sci-fi doppelgängers and one-word titles
I don’t want to label 2014 as a good, bad, or average year. I want to call it inventive, original, and delightfully dark. Whether it’s doppelgänger paradoxes leading to murderous rage, the bleak...
View ArticleREVIEW: Selma [2014]
“God was the first to cry” A civil war waged on Alabaman soil in 1965 whether President Lyndon B. Johnson felt holding off on a bill negating the South’s tactics to bar African American citizens from...
View ArticlePicking Winners at the 87th Annual Academy Awards
Things look pretty cut and dry where the Academy is concerned in 2015. The Oscars are always a somewhat watered-down look at what really mattered in the past year of cinema and this installment is no...
View ArticleTop Ten Films of 2014: A deluge of sci-fi doppelgängers and one-word titles
I don’t want to label 2014 as a good, bad, or average year. I want to call it inventive, original, and delightfully dark. Whether it’s doppelgänger paradoxes leading to murderous rage, the bleak...
View ArticleREVIEW: 13th [2016]
“… blacks get hurt worse than whites.”– Lee Atwater While 13th—Ava DuVernay‘s documentary about the criminal justice system and mass incarceration being used to extend slavery via a loophole in the...
View ArticleREVIEW: A Wrinkle in Time [2018]
“Love is the frequency” While waiting outside the bathrooms after A Wrinkle in Time finished, I saw a white couple with their two young, fair-haired daughters walking out of the theater. Mom and Dad...
View ArticleREVIEW: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché [2019]
“How come she got lost in the shuffle?” An opening montage of images and maps briskly moving backwards from present-day to the late nineteenth century while moving from Hollywood to France foreshadows...
View ArticleREVIEW: Burning Cane [2019]
“It’s hard to dance with the Devil on your back” Helen Wayne (Karen Kaia Livers) can’t cure her dog of mange. Everyone tells her their surefire remedies and she attempts them all—one month with borax,...
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