Author: Garrett Eberhardt
What Doesn’t Kill Us Reminds Us of the Power of Satire
Often times, absurdity best underscores a point. Satire has long played an integral part in helping us to analyze the world around us and make sense of the issues that plague our society. One such film uses America’s…
Read More »The Painter and the Thief Conveys The Power and Plight of the Artist
Art invigorates our lives, often making our vivid imaginations into something tangible and real. Art has the capacity to heal, enlighten, and inspire. For the creators of art, the internal calling to express themselves through their work can…
Read More »Poverty and Family’s Complications Come into View in Take Out Girl
“They say innovation was born of desperation.” “They were poor too, huh?” The struggles of immigrant families are at once well known and oft-overlooked. The pressures that first and second generation Americans feel to help their families overcome…
Read More »Beanie Feldstein and Director Coky Giedroyc Power How to Build a Girl Past Typical Coming of Age Fare
“How do I get there from here?” As Hollywood pushes toward making gains with onscreen diversity, it seems we’ve been inundated with yearly tales of lower to middle class white teenage girls coming of age. Creeping toward market…
Read More »Arkansas Documents the Cyclical Nature of the Drug Trade
“What goes up, must come down.” “How you get them is how you lose them.” These two idioms are some of the most popular phrases that outline the laws of what bind human beings and not only our…
Read More »True History of the Miseducation of Ned Kelly
It’s no secret that our experiences as children play a pivotal role in who we eventually become as adults. Growing up in a well-adjusted home with attentive, caring parents can set a child off on a path toward…
Read More »The Other Lamb Has Something to Say, but It’s Lost in Its Artistic Fervor
Our socialization plays a large part in forming who we are. What the culture we are immersed in tells us about ourselves and our characteristics matters in who we become. But as we grow older and see more…
Read More »CinemaBabel Film School
The history of film is both long and rich with content. From the silent era that launched the medium and gave us monsters that still haunt us today to the pre-code era‘s wide-ranging freedom to French New Wave…
Read More »Uncorked Tells an Authentic Tale of Black Dreamers
They say that dreamers inherit the Earth. That their visionary spirits determine all of our futures and creates worlds for us that we didn’t know were possible. But the journey to that glorious tomorrow is often paved through…
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Shirley Reinforces the Acting Talents of Its Stars but Struggles to Be Fully Engaging
The fictional tale of Shirley finds renowned writer Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss) in the process of trying her hand at writing a novel when her husband Professor Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg) invites a newlywed young couple Fred and…
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