While Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - like the play that inspired it - doesn’t quite capitalize on its opportunity for potent social commentary, this adaptation features incredible performances all around, including a career-best final turn from the late, great Chadwick Boseman that is sure to run as an Oscars favorite.
Read MoreSetting aside all of its eyesore-inducing cinematography and wasted cast, cinema’s most blatant attempt yet to capitalize on COVID-19, an action-infused romance set in a nightmare scenario imagined future, can be boiled down to one word: offensive.
Read MoreAfter spending the past few years in the Supporting Role category, Riz Ahmed’s latest performance in Amazon Prime Video “Sound of Metal” pushes him to the Lead and proves, he’s worth the part.
Read MoreAbsent for the last six years, director and auteur, David Fincher returns with an elegant, cynical look at old-school Hollywood and the parallels to today.
Read MoreIn “Letter to You”, Bruce Springsteen captures the creation of his latest album with longtime collaborator Thom Zimny. While it might be a bit too reminiscent of their previous film, it also has enough of a different perspective to offer in order to satisfy fans of The Boss.
Read MoreBill Murray turns in yet another delightful performance in his big-screen reunion with Sofia Coppola, and his chemistry with Rashida Jones allows “On the Rocks” to overcome the flaws that become apparent when he isn’t on screen.
Read MoreIt shouldn’t come as a shock to say that Sacha Baron Cohen, and Borat is the microscope on American society we didn’t know we needed. In fact, we ironically didn’t even know it was coming until it was revealed that Cohen had secretly finished the film last month.
Read MoreThough suffering from some typical romantic cliches, the film is strong in its emotional center and reels the audience in with promises of hope and faith.
Read MoreDirecter, Writer, and star Jim Cummings pits a series of gruesome killings, supposedly perpetrated by a werewolf, against a small-town police officer with the emotional maturity of an eighth-grader in this possibly divisive horror-comedy.
Read MoreA captivating, intense lead performance from Dayo Okeniyi is largely wasted in “Emperor”, due to poor filmmaking choices, a meandering and unremarkable script, and a zig-zagging commentary that is as muddled as the film’s overall tone.
Read MoreEven if you don’t have COVID-19, President Trump’s response to the pandemic is enough to make anyone sick. The new documentary, ‘Totally Under Control,’ demonstrates the recent lack of an efficient and cohesive plan of action to stop the spread of Coronavirus from the current President of the United States.
Read MoreShithouse stars 23-Year-Old director and writer Cooper Raiff, who bases the film after his own difficult college experience. The film won the top prize at the 2020 SXSW and is the first glimpse at Gen Z mumblecore.
Read MoreAfter not receiving a nomination for Best Actor at the 2020 Oscars Adam Sandler vowed to make the worst movie that has ever existed. Hubie Halloween is not that film, but it’s still not that great. Struggling to find its target audience Hubie is mixed bag of genuine heartfelt moments and poop jokes that make you regret opening up the Netflix app.
Read MoreUnder the intricately crafted script and blessing of the story’s original playwright, the late Matt Crowley, “The Boys in the Band” magnifies the lives of eight gay men (and one “straight” one) inside a flaming powder keg of a birthday party.
Read MoreNetflix’s “Enola Holmes” is a fresh, pop-feminist spin on the beloved detective genre that is well worth your watch time.
Read More“Pieces of a Woman” is not for the faint of heart; it’s a truly heartbreaking, intimate, unflinching, and harrowing look at one woman’s unimaginable loss and her process to recovery.
Read MoreChloe Zhao’s “Nomadland”, based on the novel by Jessica Bruder is the story of a forgotten part of the Boomer generation who has to keep moving to work, and working to live.
Read MoreIt has the makings of a Victorian horror film, however within writer/director Sean Durkin’s “The Nest”, the horror lies in the modern family dynamic.
Read More“Concrete Cowboy” is a story about a forgotten aspect of Black-America which needs to be told. That is why it is such a shame that it gets lost in an otherwise formulaic ‘coming of age’ film for inner-city youth.
Read More“The Devil All the Time” is the newest Netflix Original psychological thriller starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson based on Donald Ray Pollock’s best-selling 2011 novel of the same name.
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