Sammy Davis Jr. had one of the most remarkable showbiz careers of any artist. From beginning as a child star to becoming one of the symbols of the Black community while battling with his race and ethnicity, Sammy was one of a kind. Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me attempts to boil down the
AFI Fest’s Midnight Section is always good for giving you a twisty crime drama and this year that slot is occupied by V.I.P. a Korean thriller directed by Hoon-jung Park. V.I.P. starts out with a man known as Agent Park coming to Hong Kong to meet with an American CIA Agent. He leaves the meeting
Many movies have wrestled with end of the world scenarios and how humans have impacted the environment. But few have done it in such an absurd and endearing manner as has Downsizing, the Alexander Payne film that sees the world tackling the problem of overpopulation by shrinking people down to about five inches tall. I
To use an adage from an upcoming film, Suburbicon is not a place it’s a people. Very white people to be exact, as is hilariously outline in the welcome to town video at the top of the film. Oh yes, they come from New York to Mississippi to live in the picturesque town, but things
Brutal honesty in its visuals of farm life as well as its main relationship, God’s Own Country is an intimate look at the life of one gay man living in Yorkshire as the challenges of being isolated and having to do a ton of work at his family’s farm is met in intensity by the
Thor: Ragnarok might be the cinematic equivalent of fitting a square peg in a round hole in that the movie manages to fit an entertaining spectacle into what was formerly a rigid character, but you can definitely feel the strain of getting it in there. Most of the challenges to the movie truly being transcendent