Isabelle Huppert is Stalker from Hell in GRETA
When the song “Where Are You” plays in the background as we watch Greta (Isabelle Huppert) leave a black bag on the subway while making her way through the city…
Anime Fans will Cheer for Alita Battle Angel
Alita: Battle Angel feels vaguely reminiscent of a variety of films like Spielberg’s Ready Player One and so many other post apocalyptic films centered around cyborgs and humans. It’s like a…
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists Journalist to Their Core
There are many things I remember about riding the subway in New York City. The rats running across the platforms late at night, that putrid smell of urine…
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Sundance ’19: Lorena on Amazon Prime Sheds New Light on Historic Case
There is not a man alive who is not at least a little familiar with the Lorena Bobbit case. For them, it is literally their worst nightmare. Which is exactly…
Family Style Clue Mystery Dominates Everybody Knows
Originally titled Todos lo Saben and written/directed by Asghar Farhadi, Farhadi has specialized in long-buried family secrets, grudges and jealousies. His writing and direction are precise, each new revelation fitting together…
Close and Pryce are Masterful in The Wife
Ghostwriting is done all the time. In order to do so, you literally have to have no attachment or ego to the work you are crafting. That task becomes rather…
Sundance ’19: Ine Marie Wilmann is Spectacular as Sonja The White Swan
Growing up in the midwest, my winters were filled with ice-skating in Forest Park on Sundays. My cousin and I would pretend we were competing in the pairs division of…
Sundance ‘19: The Last Black Man in San Francisco Charming Gentrification Tale
Jimmie Fails is a resident of San Francisco whose major mode of transportation is via skateboard. Jimmie is not just any resident of the Bay Area, He’s a third generation…
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Sundance ‘19: Toni Morrison Doc Insightful and Inspiring
Howard University was my introduction to a few things. Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded on that campus and Toni Morrison (a fellow Bison) would become my literary guru. Toni’s writing’s…
Sundance 2019: Animals and Humans Share Spiritual Journey in The Mustang
Opening montage of serene beauty associated with horses is calming until a frenetic band of violins hovers while dozens of Mustangs run across the plains from helicopters hovering. One would…
