Moana, the Disney film set to hit theaters soon, is a brilliant conundrum of a film, with its wonderful score and sometimes faulty storytelling devices. It’s definitely good, but I was unsure how fulfilled I felt once I left the theater. Moana is the road trip of the Disney Princess nee future Chieftains movies. They
I am going to start this Doctor Strange review talking about food. Comfort food, in fact. Food that you know exactly what you will get, tastes good every time, might not be the healthiest but it leaves you recalling warm memories. The reason I bring this up? Because Marvel Studios has become the comfort food
One of the most quietly ambitious films you’re sure to see, Moonlight is a phenomenal look at one man’s life growing up in Miami, struggling with sexuality and manhood. In a way, writing that sentence might actually not be quite enough to explain just the amoun of depth and heart this movie contains.
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
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