Fences review — Viola Davis is an emotional powerhouse

Fences doesn't take the opportunity to do anything cinematic with August Wilson's classic source material, however, it does boast career-best performances by Viola Davis and Denzel Washington Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) is one of the most complex characters to be committed to stage, and now film. No wonder it took James Earl Jones and Washington to portray…

2017 Oscar Predictions: “Arrival” vs. “Lion” vs. “La La Land” in Best Cinematography

La La Land could continue its Oscar sweep in Best Cinematography, but Lion and Arrival have a chance at upsetting. Best Cinematography seemed like a shut category until Greg Fraiser (Lion) upset frontrunner Linus Sandgren (La La Land) at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards. Even though the group only predicts the Oscar winner about half of the time, it showed that La La Land isn't infallible.…

2017 Oscar Predictions: Barry Jenkins or Damien Chazelle for Best Director?

Best Director looks like a locked up category with Damien Chazelle becoming the youngest winner in history for La La Land. Best Director is probably the easier of the major categories to predict at the Oscars. Even if Best Picture is a surprise — Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan or Crash over Brokeback Mountain — Best Director always goes the way that…

Krisha review — Bold and emotionally breathtaking

Krisha is an incredible debut film by Trey Edwards Schultz with an emotional powerhouse performance by Krisha Fairchild As I'm sitting here trying to write this review for Krisha, I'm finding that I don't even know where to start. The experience of the film is, for lack of a better term, emotionally devastating. Simply put, it's one of the…