In her directorial debut, Sofia Banzhaf (Black Conflux, Splinters) introduces us to a young and unnamed female protagonist (Micaela Robertson), showing us fragments of her journey with sexual exploration. Incredibly stoic throughout the film, she is almost emotionless as she interacts with her three sexual partners (Spencer Macpherson, Daniel Maslany, and Andy McQueen). In fact,…
By Jason Thai In the new sci-fi thriller Freaks, Chloe (Alexa Kolker) is a 7-year old girl who is forced to live at home without any interaction with the outside world. Living under a set of rules enforced by her paranoid and frantic father, Henry, who will do whatever it takes to keep Chloe in….
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood introduces the iconic figure through the eyes of Lloyd Vogel, an investigative journalist with Esquire magazine with a history of exposing the darkness of our world. Tasked with writing a mere 400 words for an issue about our ?heroes?, Vogel begrudgingly accepts his assignment and begins to meet regularly with…
Starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu, Hustlers gives the audience an inside look at highs and lows of the adult entertainment industry. Set in the early 2000s, the film tells the story of Destiny (Wu), an up and coming stripper who is taken under her wing by Ramona (Lopez), an older stripper with a knack for…
Marriage Story examines the fallout of Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole?s (Scarlett Johansson) failed marriage as they begin divorce proceedings. Though both of them want to ?make this easy? and ?do what?s best for their son?, civility slowly begins to disintegrate by adding lawyers and looking out for their own interests. When Nicole moves from New…
Lucy in the Sky tells the story of Lucy Cola, an astronaut who returns home to Earth after a length mission. Although her life consists of a loving relationship with her husband, Drew (Dan Stevens) and a job that she loves, Lucy feels restless and struggles to reintegrate herself into her daily routine. Looking for the…
What Death Leaves Behind showed up in my inbox, a strange indie horror/thriller that I’d never heard of before. Now, it’s not infrequent for an indie to arrive in my box, but it is strange when a movie shows up – and it’s thought-provoking. In this case, the story of a man who has an…
Based on the true story, Ford v. Ferrari takes us back to the year 1966 when the Ford Motor Company was at a crossroads. Losing money and having failed in their attempt to buy Ferrari, they decide that they ultimate opportunity to turn around their company is to compete against the race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the…
What can we learn from the generations coming up after us? Dr. Rick Stevenson shares what he has learned after nearly twenty years of interviewing children and adolescents. I was introduced to Rick Stevenson through Greg Wright, a long-time internet friend and mentor. Greg was my boss for most of the time I was writing…
??ou got a lot of words, but you don?t say nothing. You gotta learn to listen before you can see. Listen to this old man here.? A white writer is summoned by a Lakota elder to visit him on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The elder wants him to take his various notes about life and…
