Movie Review: Southside with You

The romantic comedy flick can be like a minefield. If the film makes one wrong step, the whole story is ruined. Or if you want to go the Nicholas Sparks route, you just start dancing across the mines and make everything a catastrophe…

Top Forgotten Film Homages: Part 1

The reinvention of a famous film sequence, or a film homage, is a extremely delicate art form, so nuanced that the allusion may become altogether lost by a modern audience. Although film homages may be completely unrecognizable at first, a…

The Film Canon: Do the Right Thing (1989)

It’s sweltering. Radio DJ Mister Señor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson) is proclaiming it to be one of the hottest days of the summer. It’s too hot to work, but Mookie (Spike Lee) makes his way to Sal’s Pizzeria anyway. As…