Millions doesn’t work half as well as I think it wants to. While that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad film, it does mean that it’s not all that good of one. With a more talented director or a more natural sounding script, the picture could have been a great deal more than w... Read More »
Alyx Duncan’s debut feature is one of the best first films I’ve ever seen. She is absolutely assured in everything she does in this film, which is a lot. She not only wrote and directed it, but she’s also credited as one of the cinematographers and a producer and about half a d... Read More »
Vibrant colors from careworn clothes and plastic bags swaying lazily in a gentle midday breeze bring the diverse Ethiopian streets in Horizon Beautiful to life with multifaceted charms. Makeshift wooden chicken coops add rich visual texture to narrow alleyways while the whisper o... Read More »
The world has struggled with racism virtually as long as man has had the capacity to despise and distrust any differences he can see. Mankind has a long, terrible history of murder, subjugation, rape, torture and complete oppression based on little more than the skin color of tho... Read More »
Art has the power to alter people’s lives, to move mountains or moments, to enact changes both massive and minor in those who are affected by it. Amin Amir, directed by William Beauchamp, follows the titular artist and political cartoonist as he attempts to make both types of the... Read More »
Fan Popo’s documentary Mama Rainbow is all content over quality. The content is a story about parents coming to accept their gay and lesbian children in China, where there is an intense stigma on homosexuality, though not as intense as in Africa or the Middle East where there are... Read More »
Though a tad on the nose with its title and characters' names, Sleeping with the Fishes is a passable slice of life drama that follows a young woman (Alexis FISH, hah...) as she contends with the death of her unfaithful husband and the subsequent loss of her sense of identity as ... Read More »
Innocuous static photographs of jam spring to life and take on a revolutionary subtext as the act of digging below the surface of any story has the potential to yield countless untold treasures as we learn of the secret stories behind the making of the jam and the intellectual re... Read More »
Meryem is a tricky picture. The characters feel at once developed enough to become and remain engaged in the story, and also not developed enough to feel any real emotional connection to them. There is a certain aloofness taken by writer/director Atalay Tasdiken that makes the ... Read More »
Someone might want to alert Billy Dee Williams because I'm not sure if he was aware that he was in Pascal Atuma's The Trace, nor that he received top billing for his satisfactory delivery of five lines. If he is aware that he was in the film he might want to give it a viewing and... Read More »
