Movie Review: Mudbound

It’s the rare film that is able to combine love, optimism, and realism so well. Mudbound is very aware of how transformative friendship can be. It can overcome obstacles both within and without, and help us understand each other even in…

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Movie Review

Poor Al Gore. He’s like a sad superhero who keeps trying to spread his wisdom to the world but is shoved to the side like an old man who yells at clouds. Ten years after his controversial documentary, An Inconvenient…

Movie Review: Wind River

Taylor Sheridan has spent the last couple years establishing himself as the strongest scribe working in action cinema today. His strong screenplays for Sicario and Hell or High Water have given Denis Villeneuve and David Mackenzie fantastic jumping off points…

Justin Chon Moves from Actor to Director/Writer for ‘Gook’

Picture this day (if you can) – April 29, 1992. For a handful of our readers, this might (scarily) be before you were born. For others, this is the day the LA riots started and the Rodney King verdict was…

Movie Review: Person to Person

It’s rather hard to be cavalier about someone else’s problems when they take them so seriously and so personally. Oh wait, no it isn’t. Especially when they’re the types of problems found in Person to Person, which might as well…

Movie Review: To the Bone

Eating disorders can be a difficult subject for movies. Problems that mostly pertain to women don’t seem to be taken as seriously in general, and this is an issue most assume has an easy cure. Why don’t they just…you know,…

Movie Review: A Ghost Story

David Lowery’s A Ghost Story before the Sundance Film Festival even began puts A24 in a tight position because while this avant-garde poltergeist drama certainly fits their pedigree, it’s going to have a very difficult time finding an audience. It’s…