The Farewell ★★★½
Processing the inevitability of a loved one’s death can often be more difficult than the grief itself and no truthContinue Reading
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Stop Making Sense: The Ecstasy of Anxiety
Stop Making Sense opens with David Byrne walking onstage and placing a boombox down. Staring restlessly out into the audience,Continue Reading
A Hidden Life ★★★½
In every war, there are those who fight and those who do not. While film, and artistic depictions of warContinue Reading
The Vast Universe and For All Mankind
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy,Continue Reading
“I’ll See You At The Movies”: Roger Ebert and Life Itself
Without Roger Ebert, I never would have dreamed of writing about movies. Just as he was for countless others, RogerContinue Reading
Midsommar ★★★½
David Lynch once said that “a story can be both concrete and abstract”. Over the past decade, arthouse horror hasContinue Reading
Anxiety and Inspiration in Free Solo
The thought of climbing a mountain or rock face for most people is terrifying, but for Alex Honnold, it isContinue Reading
Weiner and the Surrealism of Modern Politics
Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s 2016 political documentary Weiner is living proof that truth is stranger than fiction. The filmContinue Reading
The Last Black Man in San Francisco ★★★
San Francisco has always been a city looking forward, trying its hardest to push California, the United States, and theContinue Reading
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