& Categories Movies Reviews June 29, 2020 “Welcome to Chechnya” documents a mass murder in modern times David France’s gut-wrenching documentary on the state-sanctioned purge of GLBT people in Chechnya is an excellent expose of the atrocities and portrait of the heroes in Russia.
R Categories Features TV June 8, 2020 Reexamining the anti-racist messaging of HBO’s “Whitewash” Lambasted at the time for not being direct enough about race, HBO's animated short takes on new significance in a post-BLM America.
T Categories Movies August 4, 2019 The Nightingale Review: What Do You Do When Vengeance is All You Have? Jennifer Kent's unsparing revenge drama is a grueling but powerful lesson in history repeating itself.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 27, 2019 “Inglourious Basterds” Lets Tarantino Turn the Propaganda Back on his Audience Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked WWII film lets him turn the camera around on the audience and interrogate his own violent oeuvre.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month July 13, 2019 The Unsubtle Social Satire of “Natural Born Killers” An early Quentin Tarantino screenplay is turned into an over the top look at America's obsession with crime & criminals.
E Categories TV June 16, 2019 Euphoria Review: A Stylish But Empty Tale of Teenage Rebellion HBO's latest series puts its characters through exaggerated adolescent antics, with little substance to show for it.
