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Director Mark Mylod has spend over two decades directing some of the biggest, most acclaimed and respected pieces of television. recently, HBO’s Succession and Game of Thrones, but also Entourage and [...]
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Walt Disney. A Burl Ives TV musical. Italian animator Giuliano Cenci. Steve Barron, with 90’s heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas. A Kevin S. Tenney slasher film. Steven Spielberg, somewhat. Roberto Benigni. [...]
EO
While Jerzy Skoimowski's EO is being billed and labeled as "a modern-day retelling of Robert Bresson's Au Hazard Balthazar," the film stands on its own as a modern update that [...]
She Said
It's a rarity when an international filmmaker is able to make a transfer from their homeland to an American studio film and still succeed, After high acclaim with last year's [...]
Bad Axe
It will always be hard to imagine the year 2020 and not think of just how distressing of a year it was. Not only did we have the COVID-19 global [...]
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
The history of Black Cinema and Black people in cinema in the United States has been the focus of articles, books, and has been touched on in other films (memorably [...]
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
In an era where a majority of films attempt to play it safe in order to turn a profit, two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Bardo, False Chronicle of a [...]
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
It’s hard to overstate just how much of a phenomenon Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther was. A sea-changing moment in Hollywood for representation in film and a billion-dollar grossing blockbuster that [...]
Descendant
As the winners write the history books, so much history is left whitewashed, and some communities and individuals only have stories left that are passed on from our descendants. Not [...]
Causeway
Two isolated soul's cross paths and form an undeniable bond in Causeway, a superbly acted and exquisitely crafted character study that has a story that is all too familiar in [...]
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
At first, this "biopic" on Weird Al Yankovic starts by hitting all the beats and formulas of the Hollywood biopic genre, before co-writer and director Eric Appel and co-writer/producer "Weird [...]