Actor-turned-director Anna Kendrick and first-time director Noora Niasari screened their new movies at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival Continue reading TIFF 2023 reviews: ‘Woman of the Hour’ and ‘Shayda’
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé takes us onstage and behind the scenes of her record-breaking tour with intimate vignettes that uncover how the show and album came together. Continue reading ‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé’ is a shimmering documentary stunner | review
A curmudgeonly professor, troublemaking student and kitchen manager are forced to spend winter break in an isolated boarding school. But they find warmth and family in the cold in The Holdovers. Continue reading ‘The Holdovers’ needs more Joy | review and analysis
In Netflix’s new biopic, Colman Domingo plays civil rights activist Bayard Rustin as he plans the March on Washington in just eight weeks Continue reading Colman Domingo gives ‘Rustin’ the megaphone | review
Sundance 2023 | Fair Play follows a happy couple that is thrown into turmoil when one of them is promoted at the financial firm they work at Fair Play is a corporate barn burner and relationship psychosexual drama that's thrilling as it is brutally precise in its study of power, sex, attraction, and ambition. Phoebe…
Nope follows two siblings that become convinced that UFOs are visiting their ranch to abduct horses. Seeing a path to fortune, they set out to capture it on video. Continue reading Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ is a chopped and screwed summer blockbuster | review and analysis
Bottoms follows two deeply uncool high school girls that create a self-defense club with the hope of wooing their cheerleader crushes Continue reading High school farce ‘Bottoms’ rides on top | review
Ira Sachs’s Passages follows a married gay film director as his affair with a woman implodes his marriage. Continue reading ‘Passages’ review: Entanglements in love and sex | Sundance
Red, White & Royal Blue follows the star-crossed romance between the First Son of the United States and a British prince Continue reading ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ is the sappy gay fairytale we deserve | review
American Fiction follows a fed-up Black author who sarcastically writes a “Black novel” to poke fun at the media’s hypocrisy only to find himself with his most success to date Continue reading ‘American Fiction’ satirically rewrites race into Hollywood | review