Alien: Covenant (Scott, 2017)
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are like a Star Trek universe composed of nothing but red shirts.
Category: Reviews
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A Quiet Passion
Terence Davies' new film, A Quiet Passion , has the potential to garner the interest of many, though it may not be accessible to those who are not familiar with his other works, or indie films in general.
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The Queer Beauty of Vision Quest
It's not gay, exactly, but it's sure not an orthodox teen sex comedy.
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No Country for Old Men — 10 Years Later
Everything about this movie screams "quality!" So why don't I love it?
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Is Genesis History? (Purifoy, 2017)
Spoiler Alert: The answer is "yes."
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3 Screenshots: A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls was my favorite film of 2016, but if failed to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
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Jonathan: LGBTQ Film or Simply a Film about Family? (with director interview)
"The only way they have is to pretend to be someone else, and this is such a tragedy"
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Akron (King & O’Donnell, 2015)
Benny (Matthew Frias), is a college student living the kind of charmed, fairy-tale existence that one imagines only places like Akron, Ohio afford to Hispanic gay kids.
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Captain Fantastic — A Homeschooler’s Perspective
As someone who grew up homeschooled, I have become accustomed to negative portrayals of homeschooling throughout media. Homeschoolers are awkward, they don’t know how to socialize, or as one comedian put it, “They’re like if an alien took over a regular kid’s body.”
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20th Century Women (Mills, 2016)
Mills loves the small moments of life too much to let them add up to any grand narrative. He would rather just watch the memories float by, like a slideshow at a birthday party or graduation.