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Mar 5, 2024
Film Review: ‘Cabrini’ as Lady Liberty
Aside from specialty items by religious film producers, it’s unusual for general audiences to find major releases that concern...
Mar 5, 2024
Oscars 2024: What Will Win for Best Picture?
Here’s something I don’t even consider the tiniest of hot takes: I don’t care about the Oscars. Okay, I...
Feb 28, 2024
Film Review: ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Goes Nowhere
A few questions pop up about Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls.
The film has writing problems. As cobbled together by veteran...
Feb 13, 2024
Ava DuVernay’s New Film Makes the Caste Connection
What does the act of a racist vigilante have to do with the caste system in India that works...
Jan 9, 2024
‘The Zone of Interest’ is a Docudrama of Pure Malignance
"The Zone of Interest," a film adaptation of Martin Amis' novel, explores the life of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex, through metaphor and oblique references to the horrors of the Holocaust.
Jan 2, 2024
The Impact of LGBTQ+ Storytellers on Recognizing Bayard Rustin
The documentary "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin," directed by Nancy Kates, helped to inspire the new Netflix film, "Rustin," which aims to recognize the civil rights leader.
Dec 19, 2023
Jeffrey Wright Delivers in Hilarious Satire ‘American Fiction’
In the provocative new movie American Fiction, Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a university professor and novelist, finds himself in a pair of pertinent modern-day cultural predicaments, as his academic novels don't sell well and another Black author's best-selling book is a dumbed-down sell-out.