Ryan Coogler has a great deal he wants to say in SINNERS, so much in fact that one genre would not be adequate to cover it all. Hence his treatise on the evils of racism and the oppression of religion encompasses an epic of magical realism that leaps off the screen with its boundless energy… Read More »
THE BEST OF ENEMIES
We know going in to THE BEST OF ENEMIES that there will be soul-searching and redemption. The challenge for director Robin Bissell in adapting this true-life story from the book by Osha Gray Davidson was to frame doing the right thing in terms that truly demonstrate to the audience the temper of the times that… Read More »
ALL THE RAGE: SAVED BY SARNO
It was great to catch up with Michael Galinsky. We had spoken before about his doc, BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN, which is an incisive examination of gentrification in general, and in the promises made to a community in order to smooth the way for a professional sport arena, and the reluctant activist who saw through the… Read More »