Promising Young Woman
It's rare for a film to embody a sense of style and attitude within the very first minute; or in the case of Promising Young Woman, the first directorial feature [...]
Soul
Releasing right on Christmas Day on Disney+ instead of theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic, "Soul"-- the latest Pixar animated film directed by Peter Docter and co-directed by American playwright [...]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
The most recent film adaptation of playwright August Wilson's work was 2016's Fences. Helmed by and starring Denzel Washington, the adaptation was a major critical success and awarded Viola Davis [...]
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung's "Minari" clutches you from the very start, with stunning landscape shots and inserts of nature that instantly draws comparisons and influences from Terrence Malick where humans realize [...]
Black Bear
Lawrence Michael Levine is a part of the second generation of mumblecore filmmakers. Mumblecore is a “genre” of film in a way, but more so was a group of filmmakers [...]
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist
‘The Exorcist’ is one of the most iconic films in film history, and quite frankly, one of the most iconic pieces of art in general. Most people have no doubt [...]
Time
A truly gifted filmmaker, Garrett Bradley has been crafting shorts and small independent feature films for the last 8 years. This year, Bradley was awarded best director in the U.S. [...]
Feels Good Man
Remember when Pepe the Frog was charming and innocent before the popular meme character was turned into a hate symbol? This would have been in the mid- late 2000s, and [...]
Lingua Franca
Authentic transgender driven films are rarely featured as genuine or as honestly as Isabel Sandoval's "Lingua Franca", the latest intimate and emotionally raw indie film which is one of the [...]
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Easily the most cerebral, misanthropic, slightly flawed, yet liberating of Charlie Kaufman's work, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" blends the limits of surrealism and horror into a feature-length drama that [...]