Best Documentaries of 2020
Generally, this feature runs well before the Oscar nominations are announced, but not this year, as the news was revealed this past Monday. Thus,...
Everything Everywhere: Destroyed by a Bagel
After watching Everything Everywhere All at Once, one thing is clear: The Daniels are over multiverses. I refer to the filmmaking team made up...
The Best Documentaries of 2017
The types of documentaries that tend to win awards and appear on lists like this one are films that tackle Big Issues: wars, the...
Lone Star Film Festival Preview
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in just about every film festival either being canceled (Telluride) or moving online (Cannes). This year’s edition of the...
Gosh Dune It
Frank Herbert’s epic science-fiction Dune saga was made into a film by David Lynch in 1984, which boasted a superb look but completely failed in...
We Are Lady Parts: Rock and Allah
A story with a point of view that you haven’t heard before is one thing, but when it’s expressed with so much confidence, that...
Batman: Stuck in the Riddle with You
As comic-book villains go, the Riddler has been particularly hard to take seriously. The guy leaves cryptic clues to his crimes? What’s scary about...
High on the Hog: Streaming Soul Food
I spent part of this past Juneteenth watching Netflix’s High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, and it felt appropriate to...
Bridgerton: Love & Friendship
In a recent movie review, I mused that ancient British baronial estates are not known to be welcoming to Black people. One of the...
Vengeance: Conspiracy Theory
It’s a plot as old as plots: a city slicker comes to the countryside with preconceived notions about the rural folk and then finds...
