Mad Max Fury Road Directed by George MillerWritten by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathouris The review: If you, like me, held off from watching this 2015 film because you hadn’t seen [...]
Bessie Directed by Dee ReesWritten by Dee Rees, Christoper Cleveland, Bettina Gilois The review: The always remarkable Queen Latifah gives us a tutorial of blues singer Bessie Smith’s rise to [...]
Songs My Brothers Taught Me Directed by Chloé ZhaoWritten by Chloé Zhao The review: Depictions of Rez Life are rare in film, and it’s saying something that a Chinese director, not an American, [...]
The review: While Andrew Droz Palermo’s work as a cinematographer for A Ghost Story should be celebrated, the same cannot be said of the directing skills on display in One and Two which is a [...]
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 [...]
The review: In Everything is Copy, Nora Ephron’s son Jacob Bernstein along with co-director Nick Hooker explore the life of the talented writer-director. There are one-on-ones with people [...]
The review: As a person in a long-term relationship who does not want to be married, I was interested in Sasha Gordon’s It Had to Be You, a romantic comedy about a woman who freaks out when [...]
Goddamn, do I love Leslye Headland’s Sleeping with Other People, which is kind of When Harry Met Sally in present day with much more discussion of sex. Alison Brie elevates everything she [...]