Coming home to grindhouse with Mandy
I think we can all agree the cult movie scene ain’t what it used to be. When I see the tag "cult favorite" I have to squint sometimes. What does it really mean anymore? These days, the tag of...
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Call Her Ganda is an indictment of Western imperialism, transphobia, and injustice
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...
Flight of a Bullet: A nailbiting 80 minute single take of a documentary
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...
Rob Lowe’s Bad Seed fails to sprout
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,...
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a sweet, satisfying teen flick
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...
Is there too much riding on Crazy Rich Asians?
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...
Sorry to Bother You explores culture, race, and the ‘white voice’
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...
Five non-Godzilla kaiju movies to tide you over until 2019
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...
Pose defies Ryan Murphy to tackle tough issues respectfully
Is it bad that I’m still shocked that Pose on FX is doing as well as it is considering Ryan Murphy’s terrible history of marginalizing trans people himself? Well, here’s a show that focuses...
Sorry to Bother You is the Weirdest (and Best) Comedy of 2018
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...