BLACKkKLANSMAN: POTENT AND POWERFUL
Spike Lee is an audacious filmmaker who crosses boundaries and deliberately blurs drama and reality. Never has this been more effective than in BlacKkKlansman, which defies a number of rules and offers a punch in the gut instead. The…
EUROPEAN CULT MOVIES
This post is a part of our New Voices Section. Written by Ron Altman. For more than 25 years I have been working my way through catalogues and IMDb entries, even Leonard Maltin’s beloved guidebook, like an explorer trekking…
TALES FROM AN AGING MOVIE WATCHER
This post is a part of our New Voices Section. Written by Jack Shipley. I took a lot of things for granted as a kid…especially my own mortality. Now, in my early forties, I realize I’m not going to…
EIGHTH GRADE
This post is a part of our New Voices Section. Written by Michaela McGrath. Eighth grade was hard. Maybe harder than we’d like to remember. It’s an age where you’re still a child but you have no independence, no…
CHRISTOPHER ROBIN: SWEET AS HONEY
The word “charm” doesn’t apply to very many movies these days, but it’s precisely that quality—and an avoidance of treacly sentiment—that makes the new Disney feature Christopher Robin so enjoyable. Director Marc Forster, who piloted Finding Neverland–another story about…
