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
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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
Outsiders and Hilarity in Basket Case
Basket Case reminds me of the annual Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Both grotesque exhibitions of excess achieve theContinue Reading
