film review
‘Mossville: When Great Trees Fall’ exposes environmental and racial terror of capitalism
May 22, 2020An intimate and gut-wrenching film detailing the assault on a town of Black residents at the hands of a South African power company aided by the legal corruption of the U.S. political system.
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Genre-bending Brazilian film ‘Bacurau’ highlights struggle between North and South
March 13, 2020Bacurau was filmed before Jair Bolsonaro won the corrupted election for presidency of Brazil, yet in its timelessness seems to say more now about Brazil and global North-South relations than even before. It’s hard to imagine...
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‘The Invisible Man’ review: Classic update incorporates horrors of domestic violence
February 28, 2020In a time when many horror films play on what jumps out of the darkness, this film leans more into making your brain wonder what is standing in the darkness that you may never see.
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‘Birds of Prey’ and the emancipation of women-led comic book movies
February 8, 2020Birds of Prey is not a hero’s journey, but rather a wild roller coaster of female emancipation through a variety of brutal moments.
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‘After Porn Ends’: New documentary explores lives of actors post-career
December 20, 2019The documentary shines a light on the hypocrisy of a society that fantasizes about sex workers on one hand, then stigmatizes them for that work on the other.
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