©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Time stands still in Bolivia’s La Paz. Every day, thousands of shoeshine boys swarm to the highest altitude capital in the world to find customers. Wearing thick balaclavas and baseball caps pulled down low to hide their faces, the lustrabotas come to work in one of the most undesirable professions facing discrimination…
Opening one’s home to a stranger can be seen as an act of generosity, but it also presents a calculated risk. Someone may come claiming the best intentions and have ulterior motives which put everyone who is already within the home in danger. There are those who are inherently more trustworthy because they know that…
Both good and bad instances of parenting can have a lasting effect on children. They don’t necessarily know what to expect, though those with separated parents can compare the actions and expressed sentiments of the two or look to their friends or extended family for other examples. But, ultimately, each relationship is individual, and even…
@Courtesy of Roadshow Attractions/Larry Horricks Adapting the 2013 novel Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Freemantle, Firebrand brings back to the big screen one of the most controversial figures in Great Britain’s History, King Henry VIII (1491-1547). In the past magnificent actors like Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933), Robert Shaw (A Man For…
©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Film representation has invigorated the independent cinema scene, amplifying the voices of minority groups. However, sometimes univocal descriptions of these groups can undermine their inclusive nature. Lost Bois, the directorial debut from Devyn Galindo, a trans-masc, Mēxihkah filmmaker, captures the quotidian intimacy and pervasive humanity within the transmasculine subculture. On June 4th,…
Every fighter wants to go out on top, and if that’s not the case, they’ll likely either spend the rest of their lives trying to achieve the glory that eluded them or leave it all behind to move on to something else. The former scenario certainly makes for better drama, and that’s part of the…
Starting over is never easy, and feeling the pull of a problematic past can threaten any future success. Getting out of prison often leaves newly freed individuals with nothing, forcing them to disclose their incarceration to potential employers and slowly earn back the trust of anyone they may still have in their lives. Associating with…
©New Line Cinema Mirrors are superficially meant to reflect how people are physically presented to the world. However, they ultimately serve as a way for the outside world to put those steered by their emotions, including vanity, on display to be judged by others, especially those they don’t intimately know. Up-and-coming genre auteur, Ishana Night…
The death of a pet is a monumental event that can be extremely shattering but isn’t perceived and respected by society in the same way as the loss of a family member. How deep and personal it feels depends entirely on the person and the relationship they had with that pet, and grief can open…
@Photo by Lucasfilm Ltd./Lucasfilm Ltd. – © 2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Since Lucasfilm was sold to Disney in October 2012, the target audience for the Star Wars movies and future TV series changed quite drastically, especially in how the new titles would address the viewers’ tastes. Except for a few productions like…
I Told You So (Te l’avevo detto) is Ginevra Elkann’s second feature film, that premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and was presented at 2023 Rome Film Festival. It is currently part of the line-up of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, in New York City. The film is set in Rome during an anomalous…
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