(11 movies watched) The Wood High school hi-jinks Emma Upper-crust hi-jinks Everything is Copy Looking back at Nora The Greatest Showman Even greater right this very second. Queen & Slim [...]
The review: Stella Meghie’s The Weekend is a quality film illustrating the difficulties of staying friends after a breakup and the ramifications when you try to buck that system.* Sasheer [...]
The review: Liz Garbus’s Lost Girls provides a good vehicle for Amy Ryan to be steely,* Thomasin McKenzie to do some accent work, and Lola Kirke to be sparkly.** This is one of those films [...]
Recommended Homecoming (February) Miss Americana (February) Zombieland (November) Good P.S. I Still Love You (February) The Two Popes (December) Atlantics (December) Alice Doesn’t Live Here [...]
The review: Melina Matsoukas’s debut feature* Queen & Slim gives us a zeitgeist film that has (unfortunately) flown under most people’s radar. Daniel Kaluuya (Slim) and Jodie [...]
The review: The overlap of the Venn Diagram of Michael Gracey’s The Greatest Showman and the actual facts of P.T. Barnum’s life is probably a slim sliver, but that does not take away [...]
Kanopy. Quality films for free. Recommended I am Not Your Negro (February) Miss Stevens (October) Good Heartburn (February) Margot at the Wedding (January) Hard Eight (November) Hot Summer Nights [...]
The review: Yorgos Lanthimos created an interesting world in The Lobster,* but it’s a world I didn’t want to spend much time in, which made this movie a long slog. That said, there [...]