They say to make a good story, you have to start from the beginning. Birds of Prey, the dazzling, female-fronted action epic about the super-heroine sidekick with no real superpowers […]
In Brittany Runs A Marathon, we meet 27-year-old Brittany. She’s young, broke, lives in New York with her “social influencer” roommate and feels miserable at her dead-end job. She spends […]
Sometimes a movie can take two tries to get you to really understand what’s to love about it. On initial review of this movie, I was a bit unimpressed. Maybe […]
A talented young songwriter is down on his luck. He’s played boardwalks, street corners and cafes for the past 10 years, but has had no strike of luck. His best […]
The live-action remake of Aladdin has finally arrived — and it made me feel as if I was watching this story for the first time — and that’s a good […]
By Charles Gray (@charlesjgray | YouTube) Two lovers are laying in bed. A single shot of them alluding to a sexual act before the title card. The camera doesn’t pan or […]
The bio-doc finally understands what the British-Sri Lankan pop star was fighting for all along. Long before M.I.A. was the pop star behind the Clash-sampled smash hit “Paper Planes” — […]
“Here’s to the fools who dream,” the tagline reads for La La Land. And for dreamers is true. You know those movies you feel were made just about you? That’s the feeling […]
I’m sitting here listening to a rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by Regina Spektor. The sweeping rhythm of the guitar, animated by the slow plucks of a traditional Japanese shamisen (“three […]
Okay. I will prelude this review saying that I did not think much of Nerve going into it. It seemed like just another teenage drama with no big names or well […]
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