By Jackson Diianni Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful (2010) is one of the most affecting films of the 21st Century, which makes me wonder how it could possibly have slipped so silently under the radar. To me, this film is a masterpiece, but I seem to be the only one who thinks so. It got mediocre … Continue reading
By Haley Goetz Michael Moore is one of the most inventive and daring filmmakers working today. His documentaries explore all sorts of varied and interesting American topics, ranging from our nation’s insatiable obsession with guns in 2002’s Bowling for Columbine to a sociological examination of countries that do things better than us in 2015’s Where … Continue reading
By Jake Triola Why help someone who doesn’t want it? If their life depends on it, maybe something, from somewhere, tells the apathetic, bourgeois part of our hearts that to act and, thus, make the choice to be a do-gooder, is just our duty as humans floating on a rock shrouded in mystery. Jean Renoir’s … Continue reading
By Jake Triola It’s been nearly fifty years since the release of Ken Loach’s Kes (1969), and the film’s fabulist quality still permeates the screen, feeling fresh as ever. The idea that a movie like Kes contains the subject material that it does is at once antithetical and apt, being a product of the social … Continue reading
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