How does one react when a crisis seems both right next door and worlds away? This is one of the many questions the characters in Chris Mason Johnson‘s film Test, which tackles the AIDS crisis from the POV of a young gay man who is an understudy in a dance company. Rather than just focusing on the harrowing aspects of this era, Test seeks to explore the characters who just happen to be living in a time when this all was possible. In this respect, Test is a wonderful character study and tone poem, that although it doesn’t necessarily succeed in every avenue it hopes to explore, it’s well made enough to be an engaging film.
There are few blockbusters will be presented with the surety that Edge of Tomorrow has. I mean this is a movie with a Groundhog Day plot device, aliens, military intrigue, politics and scifi tropes, it HAS to be self confident and completely in control or the movie would fall apart. Audiences taking in movies should
The Oscar machine can’t stop, won’t stop. I have tried to fend it off but given that Cannes ended last month and I last updated my Oscar predictions in April, it was time to illuminate you all with some new Oscar predictions and analysis. So here you go. I ranked my Oscar predictions this time
There are few villains more revered in film lore than Maleficent. She is, in my estimation, the greatest of the early Disney villains and certainly top 5 villains in their entire history. It is with that weight and history that we find ourselves begin presented with Maleficent, another in the long line of fairytale revisions.
It’s not strange to try and make sense of heinous crimes like what happened in Santa Barbara this past weekend. So its no surprise that critics and writers, much like anyone else, look to culture and art to see if there has been any influence. This is what Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday in her