Tag: Diverse
Both Sides of the Blade Has Good Performances But Still Feels Slightly Disappointing
“When you love someone it never really goes away.” Another collaboration between director Claire Denis and Juliette Binochet, with 2021 sensation Titane’s Vincent Lindon added to the mix, sounds enticing enough for any film fanatic to give a…
Read More »Jordan Peele’s Ability to Convey Fear and Dread Hit The Mark, but the Thematic Exploration? Nope.
Writer/director/producer Jordan Peele is back in theaters with his much awaited third film, Nope. One of the few name brand directors left in Hollywood, audiences are eager to see his latest horror thriller reuniting him with Academy Award winner…
Read More »Men Has Something to Say Without Saying Anything New at All
Director Alex Garland has quickly established himself as a skillful writer/director of science fiction with films such as Ex Machina and Annihilation. He makes his anticipated return to the big screen, this time returning to the horror genre….
Read More »Everything Everywhere All At Once is the Creative Cinema Audiences Didn’t Know They’ve Craved
Everything Everywhere All at Once transports its audience and laundromat co-owner Evelyn Wong (Michelle Yeoh) through an interdimensional rupture that unravels reality. Evelyn soon finds herself face to face with an alternate version of her husband Waymond (Ke…
Read More »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…
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 »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…
Read More »Death on the Nile Provides the Suspense in a Gorgeous Murder Mystery that Entertains
There’s nothing quite as suspenseful or rewarding as a good murder mystery and author Agatha Christie provided plenty of material for this genre with her works, including the travels and stories of Hercule Poirot. The latest film from…
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Emily The Criminal Tensely Covers All the Bases of the Socioeconomic Plight of Millennials (Sundance Film Festival)
The plight of the Millennial generation is an oft discussed and written about topic in media. Having lived through world changing events, multiple recessions and economic catastrophes, and faced with an uncertain ecological future, the struggles these now…
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