No preamble, let’s get into the reviews. The Holdovers – I love the way Alexander Payne looks at human connection and acerbic people. I think The Holdovers is a very solid movie with strong performances throughout. Paul Giamatti is great and his scenes and moments with Dominic Tessa really soar. Da’Vine Randolph Joy is good
Foundation season one was already a success, somehow wrestling all the world building, hard sci-fi, and expansive timeline into a coherent enjoyable narrative. It wasn’t without its challenges though and the show took a while to get going and often got bogged down in the minutae of its science. What words then can we use
Lee Miller was an iconic war correspondent responsible for some of the most important photos during World War 2. But that’s just a small part of her story, the film Lee alleges. The movie, directed by Ellen Kuras, looks into what made the woman behind these iconic images tick and how the various relationships that
Starting with a dramatization of the murder of Trayvon Martin and mixing in other horrors the caste systems of the world have wrought, Origin is a movie you’ll certainly need to gird your loins for if you belong to a marginalized community. It’s a stark look at caste systems and how they have impacted the
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