Movie Review: Selah and the Spades
Seeing the monopoly on Teen Coming of Age streaming movies, Amazon Prime decided to get into the game. Selah and the Spades is a good …
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Movie Review: Tigertail
If you keep making good things in Hollywood, at some point some studio will give you money to make whatever story you want. Alan Yang …
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: 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: Wendy
Benh Zeitlin burst onto the scene with Beasts of the Southern Wild, a revelation of a film about a young girl growing up in a …
Movie Review: Onward
I’ve said this a few times now, but Toy Story 3 represented a turning point in Pixar’s history. After that crowning achievement, Disney Animation poached …
Movie Review: The Way Back
And so we enter the new phase of the Ben Affleck meta movie. First there was the movie star flexes like Armageddon. Then came the …
Movie Review: Emma.
Emma is the Jane Austen story most Americans have probably actually seen. I know Pride and Prejudice is well known, but Clueless is basically Emma …