Dumb Money
We have had many films be released about the current century's most trying historical events ranging from 9/11, to the IRAQ War, and the 2008 Financial crises to name just [...]
2008 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2008
It was an election year with a terrible recession. After eight years of the Bush Administration, the public grew very tired of cronyism, corruption, and war. Reflecting back, we had [...]
Bottoms
Familiarly conceived but a highly amusing satire about a self-defense women's club for unpopular misfit females who have been ostracized by their classmates and faculty. Emma Seligman's (Shiva Baby) sophomore [...]
Passages
Passages is an intimate, well-acted human drama that showcases just how great of a talent Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos are, as is co-writer and director Ira Sachs, [...]
Earth Mama
Another immersion in the exploration of systematic oppression for Black cinema, Earth Mama is a deeply artful portrait of a young pregnant woman's resilience against the foster care system. Through [...]
Theater Camp
We have experienced theatrics being mocked in mockumentary fashion before with Christopher Guests Waiting for Guffman, among many other subcultures. Molly Gordon and co-writer and co-director Nick Lieberman show signs [...]
Barbie
Barbie is a fantasy comedy based on Mattel's fashion dolls that I can't see all families and young children enjoying. The welding of satire on consumerism, materialism, and capitalism into [...]
Amanda
A quirky and oddly charming coming-of-age story about a young Italian woman in her early 20s struggling with loneliness and borderline personality disorder within her wealthy upbringing and the expectations [...]
Afire
Narrowing his focus info a more intimate and personal style of filmmaking, acclaimed filmmaker Christian Petzold has altered his Hitchcockian style and dystopian tone to a more meta-approach, but arguably [...]
Biosphere
Biosphere is an off-kilter sci-fi comedy with a lot of potential that is reminiscent of the 1996 Hollywood comedy Biodome. It is a two-handler feature film debut from Mel [...]