Shirley (Decker, 2020)
America has been sheltering at home for a few weeks now, waiting for an excuse to return its attention to the movies while studios hold back their biggest titles to… Continue reading "Shirley (Decker, 2020)"
America has been sheltering at home for a few weeks now, waiting for an excuse to return its attention to the movies while studios hold back their biggest titles to… Continue reading "Shirley (Decker, 2020)"
“Broken Bird,” despite its short run time, is a simple film with a poignant and relevant message. The film follows the life of its protagonist, a biracial teenage girl named… Continue reading "Broken Bird"
So it falls to me to be that guy. The woke critic who points out that the film sadistically brutalizes women for 120 minutes of entertainment in order, ostensibly, to… Continue reading "The Invisible Man (Whannell, 2020)"
A not so funny thing happened on the way to and through Oscar So White. Actually, it happened before then. It’s been going on for as long as I’ve been… Continue reading "Burden (Heckler, 2019)"
I happened to screen Dolittle on the same morning I got a newsletter update from a non-profit about the Australian wildfires. I am told that over one billion animals have… Continue reading "Dolittle (Gaghan, 2020)"
There is an early episode of The Simpsons, oft-quoted in the Morefield household, in which Mr. Burns hires MLB All-Stars to play as ringers on the corporate softball team and… Continue reading "Cats (Hooper, 2019)"
For the first fifteen minutes or so, I worried that Richard Jewell was going to be little more than director Clint Eastwood caricaturizing law-enforcement and the media in some sort… Continue reading "Richard Jewell (Eastwood, 2019)"
There is a scene in Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am — the year’s other great documentary about an iconic and influential female artist — where one of her academic… Continue reading "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Epstein and Friedman, 2019)"
9/11 currently lies on the cusp between current event and history. Those of us who lived through it or adjacent to it, even if we were not directly impacted by… Continue reading "You Are Here: A Come From Away Story (Mossanen, 2018)"
I suppose I watch more than the usual amount of independent or micro-budget films. When I think about why, other than the Everest answer, I generally end up with one… Continue reading "3 Screenshots: Chameleon (Mizelle, 2019)"