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 [...]
The Wonder
Spirituality collides with science in Sebastian Lelio's latest period film, titled The Wonder. While suffocated with implausible detours and anchored by its elegant craftsmanship, The Wonder casts an irresistible spell [...]
On the Line
At first glance, radio doesn’t seem to be the most dynamic world to base a film in. It’s a world of stationary voices, with images filled in by the listener’s [...]
Armageddon Time
Absorbing and poignant, casually didactic and deeply personal, James Gray's Armageddon Time ends up being as engaging as it is uneven and glum. A fictionalized look at the filmmaker's childhood [...]