Review: ‘Bad Hair’ Justin Simien’s Killer Weave Horror Is A Tangled Treat
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival. Bad Hair opens on Hulu on October 23rd.*
When a black woman...
Review: ‘Synchronic’Time-Travel Snoozer Sends Anthony Mackie And Jamie Dornan On A Bad Trip
Synchronic starts out going one way, like the arthouse version of Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead, but turns out to be something else entirely...
Review: ‘The Witches’Anne Hathaway Casts A Campy Spell But Can't Rescue Robert Zemeckis' Dull...
Roald Dahl adaptations are always tricky to pull off, because the author's work often teeters between childish flights of fancy and the stuff of...
Review: ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’Sacha Baron Cohen's Funny, Reheated Sequel Is A Welcome Hit On...
For more than two decades Sacha Baron Cohen has been pushing the boundaries of good taste as a variety of fake journalist characters, pulling...
Middleburg Review: ‘Minari’Steven Yeun Leads The Way In Lee Isaac Chung's Poignant, Beautiful Immigrant...
Minari. The word is foreign to most of here in America but in Korea it's an herb, a particularly rugged one that can assimilate...
Middleburg Review: ‘Ammonite’Francis Lee Masterfully Directs Winslet And Ronan In Lesbian Drama
Ammonites are a group of extinct marine animals, known for their shells. For centuries humans have been digging them up, cleaning them off, and...
Middleburg Review: ‘One Night In Miami’Four Black Icons Debate Celebrity And Activism In Regina...
Not everyone could make a movie like One Night in Miami, at least not in the way it needs to be done. Regina King,...
Middleburg Review: ‘Wolfwalkers’Cartoon Saloon Strikes Gold Again With The Best Animated Film Of The...
Though Disney and Pixar gets a lot of glory and credit when it comes to animation, small Irish studio Cartoon Saloon has been releasing...
Review: ‘Shithouse’Cooper Raiff Delivers An Awkward, And Wholly Believable Look At College Life
College was awesome, right! Frat parties, football games, pranks, that darn cantankerous dean….oh, I’m thinking of pretty much every college based film ever made....
Middleburg Review: ‘Concrete Cowboy’Idris Elba Rides Tall In A Fascinating Urban Western Saddled With...
On some level I think we always knew there were black cowboys, but depictions of them on the big screen have been practically non-existent....