Movie Review: Scrambled
New voices are always welcome in the movie world. It keeps the medium exciting and progressing, pulling the world along with it. Even though her …
Drama
Movie Review: The Teacher’s Lounge
Generally, as Eighth Grade showed us, middle school is a viper’s den. The goal is simply to come out alive and relatively emotionally unscathed from …
Movie Review: Fallen Leaves
Ah, the great amour. Most movies make falling in love feel like magic, with gorgeous, ambitious people finding romance in exotic, beautiful places. Fallen Leaves …
Movie Review: Origin
I wish more filmmakers were as bold as Ava DuVernay. Since Selma, DuVernay has grown more and more ambitious with her projects, tying modern policing …
Movie Review: The Zone of Interest
Calling a film an “art film” these days feels more like a strike against the movie in 2023. I kinda get what they mean: being …
Movie Review: Society of the Snow
It was time. While 1993’s Alive was fine, the movie suffers from West Side Story syndrome, in that it takes an Uruguayan story and whitewashes …
Movie Review: All of Us Strangers
Everyone wants to be loved. Mr. Rogers once said the greatest thing we can do is convince someone that they’re loved and capable of loving. …
Movie Review: Ferrari
Cars and men. Men and cars. Excuse me, Mann and cars. Michael Mann doing a story about Enzo Ferrari seems like a match made in …
Movie Review: American Fiction
Through entertainment, American audiences have become accustomed to 3 types of stories about African-Americans: either they’re slaves, Civil rights fighters, or super poor, pregnant, drug …
Movie Review: Poor Things
Maybe it was Colin Farrell. Yorgos Lanthimos has a certain way with words, which work perfectly if Colin Farrell says them. However, that dialogue inside …