Blindspotting is a comedy, except when it’s not. The switches are jarring, but that’s real life. One minute, you’re driving home from work after a seemingly normal day, the next, you’re a witness to a police shooting against an unarmed…
Music Interview: Ariel Marx
We gotta give composers the credit they deserve. Without them, we may not evoke the same emotions during certain scenes in our favorite TV show or movie. We applaud them all. And right now, we’re giving it up for award-winning…
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…
Sundance 2017 Movie Review: Axolotl Overkill
Ain’t no nihilism like German nihilism, cuz German nihilism don’t stop! Did that sound like a protest slogan? Well, it’s been a long weekend of them. Perhaps it’s also a reaction against Axolotl Overkill, which, much like its 16-year-old anti-heroine,…
Movie Review: Manchester by the Sea
There’s a tragedy at the core of Manchester by the Sea, but you’d never see it behind that emotionless wall separating Casey Affleck from the rest of the world. His eyes are remote and affectionless, but not unreachable—that tiny thread…
Movie Review: ‘Wiener-Dog’
I have seen a number of independent films and have thoroughly enjoyed the majority of them. Unfortunately, Wiener-Dog does not fall under that category. Due to its unique form, style and storytelling, it just wasn’t for me. But there were…
2014 Tribeca Film Festival: Love Is Strange
In the New York Premiere of the narrative film Love Is Strange, Ira Sachs shines in his writing and directing of the challenges faced by two mature gay men, played by Alfred Molina and John Lithgow. Ben (Lithgow) and George…