(11 movies watched) Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts My favorite of the three programs. Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts First time seeing! Miss Americana How the hits get made. Starman If an [...]
The review: In Homecoming, Beyoncé and Ed Burke capture the magic of Beyoncé’s 2018 Cochella performance which included a drum line, step dancing, tight choreography, a set that includes [...]
The review: Raoul Peck’s I am Not Your Negro is the type of documentary that grabbed me from the preview, because who wouldn’t want to watch James Baldwin talk about stuff? The movie [...]
The review: Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is* a movie singularly focused on women in a way that few films are.** There is so much to see in this film, from the way the artist [...]
The review: Mike Nichols gives us a happy marriage that suddenly slams on its breaks in Heartburn.* I’m not a fan of Jack Nicholson** and was surprised to find him a chilled-out, [...]
Recommended Homecoming (February) Miss Americana (February) Zombieland (November) Good P.S. I Still Love You (August) The Two Popes (December) Atlantics (December) Alice Doesn’t Live Here [...]
The review: For most of my life, the Talking Heads have been ever present* and so I never prioritized Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense. This was a mistake, because from the first time [...]
The review: After disliking Noah Centineo so intently in The Perfect Date, I was gun-shy of To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, but Michael Fimognari managed to include enough good [...]