Admittedly, in this week’s recommendations we are four white voices discussing black films and black artists. Theirs are the voices we’d like …
Category: Reviews
Pain and Beauty Engross You in The Painter and The Thief
The Painter and The Thief (2020 | United States | 102 minutes| Benjamin Ree) Drug addiction is an absolute monster. One that looms …
Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani keep The Lovebirds from Plummeting
The Lovebirds (2020 | United States | 86 minutes| Michael Showalter) It’s a cliché, but it’s a cliché for a reason: Dying …
Little Things–and Brian Dennehy–Mean a Lot in Driveways
Driveways (2019|United States|83 minutes|Andrew Ahn) Character actor Brian Dennehy, who passed away last month at the age of 81, was a durable …
Spaceship Earth Takes a Trip Back to the Future
Spaceship Earth (2020 | United States | 113 minutes | Matt Wolf) When eight “Biospherians”, clad in their Star Trek-inspired jumpsuits, locked themselves …
Capital in the Twenty-First Century brings rock star economics to the screen
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2020 | New Zealand | 103 minutes | Justin Pemberton) Like countless millions, I haven’t yet gotten …
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, …
Little Joe is a Zombie Movie for Plant Lovers, and it Works
Little Joe (2019 | Austria/UK/Germany |105 minutes | Jessica Hausner) For months and months I’ve been dying to catch a glimpse of Little …
Three Decades Have Only Confirmed the Shelf Life of a Cult Director’s Lost Film
Shelf Life (1993 | USA | 84 minutes | Paul Bartel) Of all the directors who got their start with exploitation film …