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
As the Star Trek franchise enters its 50th year, it seems like a good place to take stock of its mission and legacy. Has this property truly gone where no man has gone before? Is there still life in the movie franchise that saw its 2nd entry of the reboot fall kind of flat. Well
One of the toughest things about movies that deal with affairs is not the likability of the characters, but in how we as an audience feel about the choices the characters make in order to start the affair. People may not agree with many of the choices made by characters in How He Fell in