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SILK ROAD

February 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

SILK ROAD

There is a wealth of confirmation to be found about many of our worst nightmares in SILK ROAD, a cautionary tale of stereotypes, specialization, and the consequences of absolute freedom. Based on an article by David Kushner in Rolling Stone, it charts the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson), a 20-something idealist of… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, dark web, DEA, drug sales, FBI, fungible ethics, internet sales, libertarian, murder for hire

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

February 10, 2021 By Leave a Comment

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

The religious overtones of JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH come towards the end of this searing examination of racial politics during the 1960s. And when they arrive, in a sequence that is most assuredly a shout-out to the Last Supper, director/co-writer Shaka King has earned the right, and then some, to invoke the metaphor. The… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Black Panthers, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, class struggle, FBI, government surveillance, racism

A GHOST WAITS

February 7, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A GHOST WAITS

While it is tempting to think of A GHOST WAITS as merely one of the best love story involving a ghost since THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, there is a great deal more going on director/co-writer Adam Stovall’s witty, cinematically rich, yet philosophically dense effort. At the risk of being accused of overthinking it, one… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, black comedy, disappearing pizza, ghosts, haunted house, proletariat struggle, romance, scary clowns

A NIGHTMARE WAKES

February 4, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A NIGHTMARE WAKES

The most potent image in A NIGHTMARE WAKES, a film that is rife with them, is the juxtaposition of blood and ink as Mary Shelley (Alix Wilton Regan) struggles to produce her novel, Frankenstein or A New Prometheus, putatively the beginning of the science fiction genre (pace fans of Cyrano de Bergerac’s A Trip to… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Feminism, Frankenstein, illusion, Mary Shelly, sanity, symbolism, writing

A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX

February 2, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX

By the end of Rodney Ascher’s A GLITCH IN THE MATIX, you may well be questioning the definition of reality. That, of course, is part of his point. Bur far from a light-hearted romp about the fringe-ish theories that posit our living in a computer simulation, Ascher is interested in more than the Mandela Effect,… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate reality, animation, avatar, base reality, computer simulation, Elon Musk, GANS, Philip K. Dick, sensory deprivation, The Matrix, Third Eye

THE LITTLE THINGS

January 31, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE LITTLE THINGS

THE LITTLE THINGS, or to be precise, “the little things” is a well-thought-out film, and if putting a film together with the pre-fab precision of a Lego® sculpture were all it took to make a great flick, such it would be. Alas, the overweening self-conscious sense of profundity fails to convince even the most willing… Read More »

Tagged With: guilty secrets, LAPD, murders, police detectives, serial killer

THE NIGHT

January 27, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE NIGHT

With THE NIGHT, Kourosh Ahari has fashioned a deeply disturbing, elegantly told tale of horror that resonates not so much for its supernatural elements, as for the fear that lurks within us all that one day, or in this case, night, we will get what we deserve for our transgressions. Ahari may be using familiar… Read More »

Tagged With: bickering couple, creepy desk clerk, hotel, paranoia

I BLAME SOCIETY

January 11, 2021 By Leave a Comment

I BLAME SOCIETY

I’m not giving anything away to tell you the punch line in Gillian Wallace Horvat’s I BLAME SOCIETY. It’s a perfectly timed, and even more perfectly delivered explanation about the film her character made in the course of this vicious, and viciously funny satire: I’m sorry it didn’t meet your expectations, I didn’t make it… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, blonde, likeable female lead, patriarchy, pointed social commentary, satire, serial killer, strong female lead

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…

December 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…

The story of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI was inspired by actual events, which leaves plenty of room for speculation about what Malcolm X, Cassius Clay (shortly to become Muhammad Ali), James Brown, and Sam Cooke talked about in that motel room on February 25, 1964. If it was less the dialectic presented here, what each… Read More »

Tagged With: civil right, economic freedom, Nation of Islam, racial equality, racism

OVER THE MOON

December 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

OVER THE MOON

OVER THE MOON sensitively takes on a difficult subject, the loss of a mother with the subsequent prospect of a blended family. It becomes a film that is respectful of the issue, yet triumphantly uplifting in it message of moving on while still honoring the past. Along the way, we learn about the importance of… Read More »

Tagged With: biker chick, blended family, lunar landscape, moon cake, moon festival, Moon Goddess

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