Tag: Period Piece
Outlaw Johnny Black Pontificates As Much as It Entertains
Black Dynamite has grown to become a cult classic in film circles with the blaxploitation parody spinning off into a cartoon show amidst its success. The team behind the film is back with Outlaw Johnny Black, a play…
Read More »Oppenheimer Explores Guilt, Crisis of Conscience in Fusion of Biopic and Tense Procedural Drama
A three-hour biographical drama shot partially in black-and-white does not usually sound like a recipe for a mid-summer theatrical release, but the formula for blockbuster success changes when director Christopher Nolan is involved. His latest film seeks to…
Read More »Chevalier is a By-The-Numbers Biopic Saved By Its Cast
Chevalier sets out to tell the true tale of Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), the illegitimate son of an African slave named Nanon (Ronke Adekoluejo) and French plantation owner George Bologne (Jim High). After his father recognizes his…
Read More »Air is an Old School Crowd Pleasure about Shooting for the Stars
Air retells the story of the endorsement deal that changed fashion and sports when Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) worked within the running shoe athletic company Nike to put all their chips on the table in pursuit of incoming NBA…
Read More »Babylon is a Bit Too Ambitious For Its Own Good
Babylon spans the pivotal era of American filmmaking in Hollywood from 1926-1952 as a host of changes were taking place both behind the camera, in the boardrooms of movie studios, and throughout American culture at large. We follow…
Read More »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 »Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward Elevate Empire of Light’s Simple Romance (Middleburg Film Festival)
Director Sam Mendes returns to the big screen bringing along with him actress powerhouse Olivia Colman. In Empire of Light we meet Hillary (Olivia Colman) a middle-aged manager of a movie theater in the United Kingdom in the…
Read More »Emancipation is a Brutal Film About Perseverance and Determination
Yep, it’s another slave movie. In recent years, many consumers, of all races, have expressed fatigue over the flow of films coming from Hollywood that depict American slavery and the brutal treatment that the ancestors of African Americans…
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…
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Killers of the Flower Moon: A Tale of Americana
“But the bigger we get, the more we’re taking from other people.” – Mobsters (1991) Social inequality and equity have become hot topics in American society over the past several years. Politicians, academics, and business leaders have all…
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