House of Gucci ★★★
“Father, Son, and House of Gucci.” This line is ad-libbed by none other than Lady Gaga in her stand-out yetContinue Reading
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Passing ★★★½
“You’d think they’d be satisfied being white.” “Rot! Who’s satisfied being anything?” Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, Passing, has been finallyContinue Reading
2021 Nashville Film Festival: “Ludi”, “Pebbles”, “Luzzu”
Ludi The first film that I saw at the 2021 Nashville Film Festival was a small, intimate drama called Ludi.Continue Reading
Red Heaven (documentary) ★★★
At first glance, Lauren DeFilippo and Katherine Gorringe’s Red Heaven seems like a work of fiction, somewhat of a dowerContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of November 2021
Alex Sitaras: With October and a number of its great films behind us, we turn to November which looks toContinue Reading
The Velvet Underground ★★★★
Absence is impossible in Todd Haynes’ experimental, fanatical documentary, The Velvet Underground. Marked by split screens rolling with Andy WarholContinue Reading
The Card Counter ★★★
Coming from the man who penned some of cinema’s best character studies in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and madeContinue Reading
Non-Didactic Social Commentary in Tales from the Hood
There seems to be a certain perception that so-called “elevated” horror (a stupid, vague term) is the superior form ofContinue Reading
Phantasm – Coming of Age in a Waking Nightmare
Few forms of media complement each other better, in my opinion, than metal music and horror films. In a shadowy,Continue Reading
The Last Duel ★★★★
Rape; a word infrequently uttered in director Ridley Scott‘s The Last Duel. It is the heart of the film, asContinue Reading
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