PJ Raval’s Call Her Ganda is a film I’ve been raving about since catching it at Hot Docs last spring. It’s the story of Jennifer Laude – Filipina, trans and a sometime sex worker – whose...
Perhaps the biggest surprise of this year’s Open City Documentary Festival – a five-day, under-the-radar gem situated in the heart of London, and dedicated to championing nonfiction work as an...
Television standby and Lifetime Channel stalwart Rob Lowe adds a director credit to his expansive resume – and surprise, it’s a remake of The Bad Seed! That sounds like a bit of a random choice,...
Romantic comedies and young adult series aren’t really my bag. My romances usually come with zombies and I’m not that involved in YA/NA at all. But sometimes you just have to put down your...
In honor of Crazy Rich Asians, which drops next week, we're bringing back a Louise Hung classic. I want to be excited about the film adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s book, Crazy Rich Asians. I want to...
Since its big screen debut, Sorry to Bother You has had a lot of labels thrown at it. Revolutionary. Science fiction. Dystopian. I’ve even seen horror lobbed around a couple of times. And of...
The nerd side of the internet is in love with the first trailer for the upcoming Godzilla: King of Monsters dropped at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. And rightly so. It’s been a few years since...
Note: This review contains mild spoilers. It is not an everyday occurrence that I see a film that not only stretches the boundaries of its genre, but actively expands that genre. The highly...
The premise behind Emmy Award-winning Rachel Dretzin’s Far From the Tree is both simple and profound. Based on the 2012 bestselling book Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for...
“The Endless” asks one burning question: what would make you travel back to the UFO Death Cult you escaped from a decade before? Surely Jonestown and Waco were warning enough? Is life in 21st...