Movie Review: Minari
The American Dream. Much like love, you know it when you see it. Minari is very much a story about the American Dream. Compared to …
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Movie Review: Nomadland
Chloe Zhao burst onto the movie scene with The Rider, an amazing story about a Native American Cowboy in South Dakota. Zhao’s tales are the …
Movie Review: The White Tiger
For people of the west, the only glimpses into Indian Culture are from Slumdog Millionaire. While that tale is fun, it is told from an …
Movie Review: Red, White, and Blue
The 3rd of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe Anthology Series is the best one so far. Unleashing all that pent up Star Wars rage, John Boyega …
Movie Review: Yes, God, Yes
In college, I was underage binge drinking with some friends, most of whom grew up in religious households. The late night conversation subject turned toward …
Movie Review: Never Rarely Sometimes Always
It’s easily to craft a compelling drama out of a story about abortion, considering the immense stress on usually a young woman, and then her …
Movie Review: The Half of It
Shame on you, movie industry. Alice Wu writes and directs a well liked film called Saving Face in 2004. But because the film industry wasn’t …
Movie Review: The Hangover
It’s amazing that no one ever attempted to make a movie like this. But maybe that’s the twisted comedic genius of Todd Phillips, the frat …
Movie Review: The Invisible Man (2020)
Now THIS is a great literary adaptation. H.G. Wells thought of the great premise: what if someone was invisible to the naked eye? Now, there …
Movie Review: 1917
Other than Peter Jackson’s efforts, there hasn’t been a lot of great recent movies about World War I. Well Sam Mendes and Roger Deakins changed …