Review: Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut
There is a point in Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut when soldier-assassin, Capt. Willard emerges from Col. Kurtz’s compound, shrouded in black, hair like an oil slick, eyes blazing with Nietzschean...
Category: Film and movies
Biopics give us something to hope for
Cast your eye over the films released in the past few years and those slated to come out in the near future and you'll notice a trend. Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, Judy—these films aren't...
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
“Living is an adventure and a challenge…If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.” Opening with the words of the great jazz musician himself, the tone is set for Stanley...
Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a gonzo journey you don’t want to miss
Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld, which debuted at Park City back in January, is a cinematic reinvestigation of the mysterious 1961 plane crash that took the life of United Nations...
I can’t stop thinking about Midsommar
Ari Aster’s Midsommar begins, ends, and is punctuated with screaming. Screaming in films is generally a sign of catharsis, right? Sure. Well, and abject horror. Midsommar gives us both, of course....
Greta Schiller, “Before Stonewall”
“I made a whole film, Paris Was a Woman, about lesbians in Paris between the wars. Now we have the internet, and the communication on the web, and people can fly places, and you can live...
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a solid, serviceable entry in the monster pantheon
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is here and oh boy is it a doozy. The long-awaited monster slamjam is the direct sequel to 2014’s Godzilla, therefore it kicks off in real time 5 years after the...
5 life lessons from Full Moon Features
You know, the month of May started out pretty strong. It’s spring, temps are getting high again, the sun’s out. We already know the world is a hellscape, but it seemed to have pause for a bit....
Detective Pikachu had so much going for it. Then the ableism showed up.
Alright, has everyone seen the painfully adorable yet surprisingly deep Detective Pikachu yet? Good, let's talk about how terrifyingly messed up it is in terms of disability… with some light...
Blowin’ Up chronicles harm reduction at the Queens Human Trafficking Intervention Court
“I hate court. I didn’t want to be at court. No one likes court. It’s boring. It’s terrible. It’s chaotic. And having to tell someone they have to do five sessions with me to get an...