@Courtesy of Black Bear The most compelling, knockout boxing performances – both in the ring and on the screen – are potent game-changers that will long be remembered. That sentiment is certainly true for the career of former professional boxer, Christy Martin. It’s also the case for the new gritty, cathartic biopic about her life,…
©Courtesy of GKIDS Continuously reliving the same events in a seemingly endless time loop can be an initially daunting task. But once again delving into the visually and emotionally in-depth story of the new sci-fi anime film, All You Need Is Kill, is an exciting adventure. The feature is based on the 2004 best-selling light…
One of New York’s most beloved and accessible festivals, SummerStage, a free outdoor performing arts festival, has existed since nearly 40 years ago, Stevie Wonder, Janelle Monáe, Herbie Hancock, The Roots, Jay-Z, and Nas were among the legendary performers, with more than 7 million attendance that people from New York City and around the world,…
@Courtesy of Focus Features After the quite overrated Poor Things and the interesting but unbalanced Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos is back with his best movie since The Favourite. And this happened because the director worked on a screenplay which is quite basic but nonetheless effective, allowing him to develop his own visual taste and…
©Courtesy of Janus Films Biopics thrive on their ability to see the ordinary in people as magical. The uniquely experimental new period docudrama, Peter Hujar’s Day, does just that by presenting the elegant titular character through melancholic subtext. Ira Sachs both wrote and directed the movie about the late cultural photographer. The filmmaker turned a…
©Courtesy of GKIDS Honestly, animation was probably the only way to adapt Amélie Nothomb’s otherwise “unadaptable,” “biographical” novella. Describing the world as she supposedly saw it as a three-year-old toddler, her book-club-friendly The Character of Rain reads something like Look Who’s Talking in the style of Terrence Malick. Regardless, the title rugrat character has a…
The film written and directed by Nia DaCosta reimagines the play by Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler. Just like the Norwegian stage drama, the film portrays the experiences of the daughter of a general, who is trapped in a marriage and a house that she does not want. Hedda shows the titular character, played by Tessa…
©Courtesy of Sony Pictures Dating is never easy when you are sixteen, but it is especially hard for a Devil Hunter like Denji. Instead of attending high school, he spends his days patrolling the streets. Technically, he hunts devils, rather than the demons of other famous anime (and KPop) franchises, but it is the same…
The Netflix docu-series Victoria Beckham captures the professional growth of Victoria Adams, the Spice Girl, who became the WAG when marrying footballer David Beckham, who ultimately flourished into the fashion designer we know of today. If the world wanted her to be Posh Spice forever, or the trophy wife of an athlete, Victoria Beckham proved…
Receiving a resurgence in attention for their long-lost work can create a wistful melancholy for many creatives. That’s certainly true for poets in a culture like downtown New York City that values independent art. Willem Dafoe‘s protagonist, former poet Ed Saxberger, must do just that amongst a newfound circle of literary aspirants. The up-and-coming writers…
©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Released in 2021, the first The Black Phone was a remarkable horror movie because the director Scott Derrickson, adapting together with C. Robert Cargill a (quite forgettable) short story by Joe Hill, made it personal. He wanted to talk about the social-economical environment in which he was raised, and show how…
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