We are now past phase 1 of the fall festival circuit, which we chatted about on the latest podcast, and are now in the NYFF phase 2, so it’s as good a time as any to update predictions. But first some analysis: 1. Remember how I said this was an awesome year for Black movies?
There’s really no easy way to start off a review of Goat, the wonderfully intense film directed by Andrew Neel. Particularly after you’ve just come from under its compressive force, as I have. Watching people be terrible to each other is a fun time to a point, so what do you do when those characters
Scene: 1999 Century Theaters in Pinole, CA. A young impressionable young man was on his way back to the bathroom to see his screening of The Iron Giant. However, the screening was sharing a marquee with another film and in his haste to return, he actually stumbled into another movie. That young man was me and
These are pre-Toronto pics that took me eons to do, and will probably drastically change. I also don’t “really care” about these, if you’ve seen my recent rants about these. One of the coolest things about this Oscar season is that for the first time in recent memory I truly feel like the films are
I was reading The Film Experience the other day and I saw the Nathaniel ranked the Oscar nominations this past decade. Not one to let a list go unresponded to, I thought I’d lend my hand. Rather than take the time to rank all the performances, I decided to share the nominations that I consider
After watching Suicide Squad, a film that I enjoyed for the most part, my immediate thoughts went to the future of the DCEU. We won’t have another film from them till Wonder Woman next year and so now seems like the best time to take stock of what has been presented to us. In particular, I’ve