(2019 | USA | 95 minutes | dir: Michael Angelo Covino) The Climb was a movie that I thought would be a …
Author: Chris Burlingame
Right-wing creeps and gullible fools beware, Borat is back, baby!
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020 | USA | …
The Trial of the Chicago Seven gives nervous liberals a chance to feel hopeful before the election
The Trial of the Chicago Seven (2020 | USA | 130 minutes | Aaron Sorkin) I don’t think there’s a television program …
PREVIEW: Seattle Queer Film Festival celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary starting Thursday
I said it once before but it bears repeating: the Seattle Queer Film Festival is one of the best-programmed mini-festivals in the …
Watch Gloria Steinem epically shut down the haters with one weird movie
The Glorias (2020 | USA | 137 minutes | dir: Julie Taymor) The first scene of The Glorias, a regrettable biopic from …
Athlete A is a moving, but incomplete, story of sports’ biggest (and very worst) scandal
Athlete A (2020 | USA | 105 minutes | Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk) It seems hardly fair that after ESPN gave us …
Ready or not, Pete Davidson begins his reign as The King of Staten Island
The King of Staten Island (2020 | USA | 137 minutes | Judd Apatow) By any objective measure, two hours and seventeen …
Gunpowder Heart is a powerful film from Guatemala, and a first-time director
Gunpowder Heart (Pólvora en el corazón) (2019 | Guatemala | 87 minutes | Camila Urrutia) Gunpowder Heart, a new movie that premiered …
Bad Education is a portrait of the sociopath as a broken man
Bad Education (2020 | USA | 103 minutes | Cory Finley) Bad Education, a new movie that debuted on HBO this weekend, …
Other Music will make you nostalgic for record stores, not just a special one in New York
Other Music (2019 | USA | 85 minutes | Puloma Basu and Rob Hatch-Miller) In a more perfect world, the new documentary …