American Fiction, the adaptation of Percival Everett’s Erasure, is a prickly thing. A grounded satire that both funny and emotional, the movie tackles a variety of subjects like race, identity, and the writing/entertainment industries. Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonious Ellison, an author and professor, whose disregard for his student sensitivities gets him put on sabbatical. Taking
What is human nature? How is it affected by the systems placed on it and what would happen if those fell away? If you’re looking for answers to those questions, make sure to get to a theater near you when Concrete Utopia opens. An aftermath of a disaster movie, this film plants us in Korea
As I have begun to see with the films chosen for this year’s TIFF, lots of films tackled pretty heady subject matter and aims to use narrative tools to paint a picture of an issue. Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut Woman of the Hour certainly works as another reminder of how violence against women is not