Category: Film
The Conspicuous Alignment of LA ‘92 and USA ‘20
In a 2017 documentary called LA 92, the revisiting of the Los Angeles riots sparked by the “not guilty” verdict of four police officers who [Read More…]
The Brittany Murphy Documentary Deserved the Amy Treatment
As the possible murder of Brittany Murphy in 2009 begins to spark interest again in the wake of a documentary called Brittany Murphy: An ID [Read More…]
Capone: The Tommy Gun Titan Goes Deranged in Latest Biopic Focusing on His Final Year
When it comes to movies about criminals, particularly of the Italian-American mafioso variety, there is never a shortage. Least of all on the subject of [Read More…]
Blow the Man Down Shows the Repressed New England Way to Snuff Out Patriarchy
With a title that plays on an old English “sea shanty” (a.k.a. “work song”), Blow the Man Down offers a controlled buildup to the ways [Read More…]
The Photograph: One Long Buildup to a Tag About Drake versus Kendrick Lamar
Barely eking by before the point when movie theaters would be dealt a death blow from COVID-19, The Photograph’s release on Valentine’s Day seemed to [Read More…]
The Assistant: A Micronomic Look at the Ripple Effect of Ignoring Abuse Pre-#MeToo
As Kitty Green’s debut feature (after releasing three documentaries, including Casting JonBenét), The Assistant feels like a petri dish of a sociological study on the [Read More…]
Dangerous Minds: The Rare Conundrum of A Movie Being Offensively Condescending & Also Good
From the moment LouAnne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer) walks into the classroom of Parkmont High, she is branded as “white bread” by the students she’s been [Read More…]
Love Won’t Save You: An American Werewolf in London
There is a common trope in every love story that begins with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle that actually is, in the end, insurmountable (though many [Read More…]
Madness Grows in Isolation–And Also In Company: Grey Gardens Through the Quarantine Lens
Little Edie, of course, was slightly more averse to staying confined, noting from the vantage point of her “youth,” “I suppose I won’t get out [Read More…]
Outbreak & “The President,” Or: Bill Clinton Was Way Too Peacenik to Blow Up A Town
As American governors already look to reopening states despite a paltry amount of time spent in confinement compared to Europe and China, one can, of [Read More…]
