“…the beauty in the villainy” There are few words that have consumed my mind quite like these spoken by Guillermo del Toro. This statement was made during the chat between the director of Pan’s Labyrinth and Cornelia Funke, who did the novelization, and it was something that stuck with me as I rewatched the film
Have you ever watched a film that you find endlessly fascinating on a thematic level but that for some reason doesn’t fully connect on a movie level? If so, you’re familiar with the conundrum that I am regarding The Birth of a Nation. Nate Parker‘s directorial debut is one of conviction and succeeds on many
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