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 …
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Movie Review: Blow the Man Down
Small town Maine isn’t exactly high on the list of Hollywood representation. Maybe that’s because a host of powerful women are burying stories like Blow …
Movie Review: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Let me take you back to 2004. The comedy genre exploded that year: 8 eminently quotable comedies came out that year. Most years can barely …
Movie Review: Da 5 Bloods
A Spike Lee joint is a hurricane. There’s a force and velocity to it that’s unstoppable. What’s it destroying in its runtime? Your perspective. You …
Movie Review: 13th
Ava DuVernay did the near impossible with Selma: she made an emotionally complex movie about Martin Luther King Jr. without resulting to outright simplistic hero …
Movie Review: I Am Not Your Negro
Martin Luther King. Malcolm X. Medgar Evers. These are names most people get taught in high school about Civil Rights and the African American experience …
Movie Review: Catch Me If You Can
The general thoughts around Catch Me If You Can is it’s lesser Spielberg. Oh no, the man who created 5-10 of the greatest movies of …
Movie Review: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Romcoms during criminal enterprises have a proud cinematic history. Alfred Hitchcock took the formula and bascially made it an art form. Art being the operative …
Movie Review: Ishtar
Ishtar is more famous in Hollywood for what happened outside the screen then what happens on it. It’s one of Hollywood’s most famous flops, as …
Movie Review: Twilight
In my years of watching movies, there are a few rules I’ve learned to go by. One such rule is that a great screenplay can …