Tag: Family
White Noise is Just That Despite Its Stellar Cast (Middleburg Film Festival)
Based on the 1985 novel of the same name, White Noise follows college professor Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) who lives in a comfortable suburb with his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and their three children. The family soon have…
Read More »The Fabelmans Uses Film to Teach About Family and Personal Growth
Steven Spielberg makes his return to the big screen in his most personal film yet. The Fabelmans is a semi-autobiographical film about the director’s childhood and love for film and directing. Even more than the movies, this film…
Read More »Armageddon Time Is an Interesting 1980s Time Capsule, but Not an Interesting Film (Middleburg Film Festival)
The 1980s was a pivotal decade that saw many great changes for the United States. An actor became President, a child star went solo and changed music and television forever, and commerce coined a phrase that would last…
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 »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 »Petite Maman: If You Could Ask Your Young Mother a Question, What Would It Be? (Toronto International Film Festival)
The relationship between parent and child can be a roller coaster, particularly during a child’s formative years when their emotions are strong but their life experience is thin. Throughout our young lives there are moments where we all…
Read More »House of Gucci’s Potential Compelling Family Saga of Greed Lost in its Camp
Tales of family strife and gamesmanship currently dominate the entertainment landscape from the just ended Game of Thrones HBO series to Ozark to Succession to Yellowstone. Audiences love to see stories about how greed and business dealings affect…
Read More »Encounter and Its Incredible Ensemble Pack An Emotional Punch (Toronto International Film Festival)
As the 21st Century began with military excursions in far off lands that raged on for 20 years, the after effects of these brutal wars became an important topic as veterans returned home with the scars of conflict…
Read More »King Richard is the Perfect Family Film and Depiction of Parental Determination (Middleburg Film Festival)
The job of a parent is to do anything they can to ensure the safety and future success of their children. In the world of entertainment, the parents who take this task to the extreme with micromanaging and…
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The Theatrical Experience Lives! You’ve Never Seen Anything Like Avatar: The Way of Water (Since the First Avatar)
After years of waiting and speculation, writer/director James Cameron and his Avatar franchise have returned to the big screen. After its monumental achievements in 2009 that included becoming the highest grossing film of all-time and a Best Picture Oscar nomination,…
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