See You Then follows two college exes, one of whom has come out as a transwoman, who reunite more than a decade after a contentious split See You Then explores and challenges the nuances of being a woman and being a transwoman through a deeply satisfying conversation between two exes — masterfully portrayed by Pooya…
The End of Us follows a couple who unfortunately breaks up just as the world locks down in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic How it Ends try to make a relatable pandemic-set romantic-comedy, instead the overwhelming feeling is "too soon." It’s oddly fitting that The End of Us, directed by Henry Loevner and Steven…
Director and writer Martin Edralin talks about his new film Islands, which is premiering in the narrative feature competition at the 2021 Online SXSW Film Festival As I was perusing the lineup for the 2021 Online SXSW Film Festival one film, in particular, caught my eye. Martin Edralin’s Islands had a logline that immediately captured…
Two decades later, Love & Basketball is still one of the most empathetic romances and sports drama ? This recommendation for Love & Basketball was originally published in our newsletter. Sign up here. Happy Thursday! If you live in New York City, there will be an emergency rally on Saturday in Washington Square Park protesting the violence…
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival went from the mountains of Park City, Utah to my living room. Here's what the experience was like. This post about the 2021 Sundance Film Festival first appeared in my newsletter! Sign up here. I was fortunate enough to be invited back to cover the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, the…
Judas and the Black Messiah is an electrifying and contemplative biopic about Black Panther party chairman Fred Hampton and the plot to bring him down Of the movies that have come out after last year's Black Lives Matter protests, Judas and the Black Messiah is perhaps the most essential. A raw and in the trenches…
Coming Home in the Dark follows a family on a road trip in the New Zealand mountains that is isolated and tormented by an unknown assailant While Coming Home in the Dark doesn't bring anything new to the thriller genre, it is an anxiety-inducing mean and lean entry that is the perfect kind of Midnight…
Nicolas Cage is on a mission to return a missing woman in the Japanese Wild West post-apocalyptic hellscape that is Prisoners of the Ghostland Prisoners of the Ghostland is easily the wildest film of Nicolas Cage's epic career. Mixing elements of Escape from New York and Mad Max: Fury Road with acid, the result is…
Mass watches as four people come together to talk through an old wound that has been preventing them from moving on with their lives Mass is a stunningly raw and emotional journey through trauma, grief, and healing featuring four tour-de-force performances that'll leave you breathless. Four people gather in a small room in the back…
John and the Hole follows a teen named John who holds his entire family captive in a deep concrete hole in the middle of the woods. John and the Hole as an intriguing enough premise holds you for some of its running time, but its lack of commitment to the black comedy or biting satire…
