by Kris DiNardiLoving is based on Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred (Ruth Negga) Loving’s nine-year legal battle with the state of Virginia in the 1960’s over the legitimacy of their interracial marriage. After spending a few years in exile in Washington D.C. in order to escape Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws, the Lovings decided to secretly return … Continue reading
by Byron BixlerThere are several places one could start when addressing the individual parts of Pablo Larrain’s masterpiece, but let’s begin on its most superficial level. Jackie belongs to a group of “snapshot biopics” that have come out in the last few years, catching up with a historical figure during a very brief period of … Continue reading
by Joshua WiederBarry is director Vikram Gandhi’s second film, and his fledgling, amateur directorial tendencies draw attention to themselves quite glaringly in this two-hour coming-of-age biopic about a 20-year-old Barack Obama. In the interest of fictionalization, this film makes a concerted, but subtle effort to draw a distinction between the real man and this fictional … Continue reading
by PJ YermanFor massive Star Wars fans like me, December has become more than just the holiday season. It’s “New Star Wars Movie Month,” something followers of this epic cinematic saga have waited nearly 40 years for. Gone are the days of tapping your foot for three years between films (and 16 between trilogies). The … Continue reading
by PJ Yerman I have a riddle for you. What’s big, expensive and making better movies than Pixar? Nope, it’s not that company that can only produce feature-length toy commercials for Minions; it might just be Disney Animation Studios. Moana, directed by animation veterans Ron Clements & John Musker (Aladdin, The Little Mermaid), tells the … Continue reading
by Haley GoetzIn the scope of cinematic history, there are only a few films that truly transcend time. Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight is one of those films. Telling the story of one man’s life in Miami, the plot follows along three distinctive points in his life. Coming at a time of great tension in the American … Continue reading
by Haley GoetzIra Sachs’s Little Men runs like a visual play. It’s comparable to Roman Polanski’s 2011 film Carnage, which is a look into the loves of coddling urban parents. In Little Men, however, we see the flipside of that. The film examines the lives of coddled urban children — in particular, two young men: … Continue reading
by Justin MadoreHarry Potter’s been out of the cultural zeitgeist for awhile now. The last film in the franchise was released more than five years ago, and since then, the wizarding world has been largely empty of content, with no new books or sequels to speak of. Nothing as popular as Harry Potter ever goes … Continue reading
by Justin MadoreI’m going to be honest: I was really dreading watching this. 2016 has been, at least for me, one of the most disappointing years for mainstream cinema. It feels like nearly all of the blockbusters and big-budget movies released this year have been severely underwhelming. The overall dependency of movie studios on franchises … Continue reading
by Erica NoboaJapan’s most notorious horror figures creep their way back onto the big screen, only this time, they’ll have to compete to decide who’s the scariest ghoul of them all. Sadako is the demonic young woman who terrorizes unsuspecting bystanders in Hideo Nakata’s 1998 film, Ring. Anyone who views her haunted VHS tape will … Continue reading
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