North Star, Kristin Scott Thomas’ directorial debut, takes us back home--well, to a home in England--with three sisters who are returning for their mother’s third wedding. Her first two husbands have died, both of them while serving the country in the Royal Navy, and...
Dance is amazing. There seems to be so much freedom in the movements and, if done right, dancing looks fun, and light and easy. Only, it’s not. Chelsea McMullan’s Swan Song takes us behind the curtain of Swan Lake, directed by Karen Kain for the National Ballet of...
Change is almost always scary for me. I don’t like my routine being interrupted, and Iespecially find it difficult to accept that if I want to ‘make something of myself’ or even justsurvive, I have to be willing to try new, often risky things. In A Road to A Village,...
Directed by Um Tae-hwa, Concrete Utopia tells the story of the residents of the Hwang Gung apartment complex as they navigate survival after an earthquake destroys all the other buildings and leaves theirs standing. Soon, they are also approached for shelter by people...
Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, tells the story of Cheryl Bradshaw (also played by Kendrick). Bradshaw is a struggling actress who appears on as a bachelorette on The Dating Game, a TV game show where bachelors compete for an all-expense paid...
In I Do Not Come to You by Chance (directed by Ishaya Bako and based on the novel of the same name by Adaobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani), Kingsley, the oldest son of a Nigerian Igbo family is tasked with taking care of his mother and siblings as his father suffers from a...
There came a point in my life when I started to question why racial violence was happening. Every time I heard of a shooting; I would wonder, “what would drive a person to this point? Why is it so easy for other people looking in to justify the death of a person? And...
I feel like everyone loves a good underdog story. I know I do. There’s something magical about watching someone who “isn’t supposed” to be in a space, or who nobody believes in prove everyone wrong. It’s even better when that story actually happened. I’m like “yeah,...
I’ve been thinking recently about how weird death is. (I know, what a way to start. My apologies). It’s strange to me that a person could have a life, with experiences, memories, influences on events and other people that leave tangible marks on the planet, and then...