Movie Review: The Persian Version
If life were fair, The Persian Version would become the new My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Filled with delightful cultural specificity and multiple wonderful stories, …
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Movie Review: Holy Spider
I cannnot believe America has tried to adapt the premise of Holy Spider yet. With streamers’ obsessions with true crime today, this true life serial …
Movie Review: A Hero
Very few moviemakers out there have a way of making their films feel like parables or fables that should be told, generation to generation. One …
Movie Review: The Salesman
Asghar Farhadi is in the current director pantheon, in my opinion. Farhadi, Richard Linklater, Park Chan-wook, and Adam McKay are on the Mt. Rushmore of …
Movie Review: Rosewater
Jon Stewart has been of the most important people of the new millennium. He and his Daily Show has openly challenged politicians and their manipulation of …
2014 Fall Movie Preview: November
Click on the month to read the previous previews for September and October. INTERSTELLAR The Good: Christopher Nolan, the director of the millennium, Matthew McConaughey …
Movie Review: Argo
Argo is a top-notch political thriller. Most movies like this resort to some sort of violent conflict at the end, but Argo knows the suspense …
Movie Review: A Separation
A Separation is a wonderful combination of genres rolled into one: courtroom drama, family conflict, mystery, and a dysfunctional institution story. Director Asghar Farhadi sets …