film
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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‘Citizen K’: Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the birthing of the new Russia
December 10, 2019Citizen K is totally riveting from beginning to end, assuming a viewer has some interest in the subject.
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Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman” through the eyes of a once and former Teamster
December 5, 2019For all the things the film did well, it failed to portray the Teamsters union properly and accurately.
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