Month: March 2022
Mothering Sunday Weighs Grief and Social Expectations (Toronto International Film Festival)
Based on the 2016 novel, Mothering Sunday follows Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) works as a maid for the Nivens family (Olivia Colman and Colin Firth), a couple who lost their sons on the battlefields of World War I….
Read More »Alice Feels Uneven, But Keke Palmer Keeps the Audience Invested (Sundance Film Festival)
All Americans grow up learning that the slave trade was ended after the end of the Civil War with the passage of the slave amendments, inspired by President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Yet, as time has gone on,…
Read More »After Yang Contemplates Re-centering Life and What It Means to be Human (Sundance Film Festival)
“That’s such a human thing to ask. We always assume other beings would want to be human, what’s so great about being human?” After making his full length feature debut in the director’s chair for 2017’s Columbus, Kogonada…
Read More »Fresh Feels Derivative and Heavy Handed but Still Entertains (Sundance Film Festival)
Horror films with heavy social commentary and themes have been all the rage over the past decade with some abhorring the so-called “elevated horror” tag these films have been slapped with. Fresh follows this era of horror’s styling,…
Read More »The Batman Showcases The Dark Knight’s Detective Skills in the Best Batman Story Ever on Film
Batman is one of the most ubiquitous characters in pop culture with numerous actors having had a crack at playing the iconic comic book character. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, even the most detached person knows…
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Master Should Spell the End of “Being Black in America is the Real Horror!” Horror Films (Sundance Film Festival)
The 2017 release of Get Out felt like such an event. A true cultural reset where a genre that traditionally has been known for ridding itself of its black characters before you got halfway through your bucket of…
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