films
‘A Brother’s Whisper’: A sobering epiphany of Black American life in America
June 15, 2022The film unfolds with an indivisible mixture of sobering reality and epiphany.
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’: Nostalgia, propaganda, recruitment
June 7, 2022Top Gun: Maverick is part of the tradition of legacy sequels for properties from the 1980s that we’ve been seeing for the last decade-plus.
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‘Crimes of the Future’ review: A freakishly seductive voyage into the folly of man
May 31, 2022It’s a bizarre ride of a movie that may be too weird for some and too unclear in its intention for others.
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Happy Birthday Charlie Chaplin: Revisiting ‘The Great Dictator’
April 15, 2022On April 16, 133 years after the birth of Charlie Chaplin, his iconic comedy-drama condemning fascism remains powerfully relevant.
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Melancholy Danes: A Scandinavian ‘Sunset Boulevard’ in Bille August’s ‘The Pact’
February 11, 2022The 73-year-old Danish helmer’s almost two-hour The Pact is a thought-provoking, moody movie.
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