Discussing Stir Crazy
Alper Kavak: Sidney Poitier’s first directorial entry into the 1980s was Stir Crazy, a quirky and lighthearted buddy comedy thatContinue Reading
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The Films of Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier was nothing less than groundbreaking. The first Black actor to rise to prominence in America, Poitier’s career occurredContinue Reading
Scream ★★★
Subversion has always been at the core of Scream and what makes the franchise special. The original was a sensationContinue Reading
Licorice Pizza ★★★★
The late Joan Didion ― essayist, critic, and native of California ― once wrote ‘I write entirely to find outContinue Reading
The Matrix Resurrections ★★★½
In these strange, uncertain times, particularly for cinema, the reliance on the blockbuster to draw in crowds is perhaps moreContinue Reading
C’mon C’mon ★★★
“Have you ever thought about the future? Err yeah, but whatever you plan on happening never happens.” One of theContinue Reading
Nightmare Alley ★★★★
Amid a maze of spectacle ranging from the whirring contortionist to the whimsical clairvoyant is where Guillermo del Toro setsContinue Reading
The Harder They Fall ★★½
Jeymes Samuel’s debut full-length feature film The Harder They Fall is a Western revenge tale, though one that is quiteContinue Reading
Remembering Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim‘s name is synonymous with musical theatre. If you’ve any interest at all in musicals, you more than likelyContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of December 2021
Alex Sitaras: Like the two months before it, December continues to show that movies are back. First up I’d likeContinue Reading
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