Tag: Oscars

Pieces of a Woman Examines Grief and All Its Facets

Losing a child is one of the most gut-wrenching experiences that can ever befall a person. Major depression, suicide, health problems, and marital disruption all become risk factors for parents experiencing loss, particularly during the first year immediately…

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Promising Young Woman Inventively Tackles the Nuances of Rape Culture

Our society’s treatment of women has been one of the topics of conversation for a few years now. Addressing rape culture, the pervasiveness and normalization of sexual assault due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality, has been…

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Middleburg Film Festival: One Night in Miami and the Battles Over Ideology and Celebrity in Activism

The carrot or the stick. The hawk or the dove. Debates over using aggression or peaceful compromise as a group to achieve their aims is an eternal one. In America, this struggle is currently playing itself out on…

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Provides a Glimpse at the Black Struggle for Basic Respect

The summer of 2020 was an explosive one that in many way mirrored the Red Summer of 1919 with protests and the dark specter of black death spread nationwide and beamed into our homes on the news or…

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Middleburg Film Festival: Minari Teaches Appreciation of Both Our Elders and the American Dream

Immigrants and their stories and role within American society have been hot topics over the past four-plus years. Are they taking jobs away from Americans in need? Are they a misunderstood and neglected key demographic for the future…

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Ammonite’s Stellar Performances Not Enough to Save It

Often times, love affairs begin when two people find solace each other from tough circumstances. A human refuge away from whatever struggles we’re facing, an empathetic ear that can relate to the pain we’ve been through and the…

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Nomadland and What Post-Industrial Collapse Hath Wrought

Some of us are born with wandering souls; traversing the world for meaning or peace or maybe simply adventure, always seeking answers in new places among new faces. Others come to amble about in response to the upending…

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Hillbilly Elegy Portrays the Reality of Generational Curses, Not “Hillbillies” Themselves

None of us may choose the circumstances into which we are born or whom our parents responsible for raising us into well adjusted adults may be. With any luck, we find ourselves under the care of two somewhat…

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AFI Fest: Sound of Metal is an Empathetic Film on Accepting Life’s Challenges and Changes

Adjusting to unforeseen circumstances and tough situations is one of life’s most challenging aspects and something we all must face at one point or another. For those of you reading this film review that have experienced 2020 in…

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The Trial of the Chicago 7 Shows the Past is Prologue

Fragmented youthful leftists idealistically trying to create a world that may never be, dirty tactics from administration officials who we would later found out are more corrupt than the leftists they seek to destroy, a partisan judiciary, and…

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