I happen to be a daughter with a mother, and I tear up just thinking about how difficult/wonderful it is to have a mom. So you might think Mothers and Daughters, fro
Read full Post
On the surface, there has been a lot of forward movement on television for black women. We're now able to see an incredible breadth of black female characters, inclu
Read full Post
Much in the way the culinary world produced a new generation of household names, real estate now is breeding its own stars. Chief among them is 44-year-old Mexic
Read full Post
Never one to betray the courage of his convictions, Luca Guadagnino excels at the unrepentantly grandiose and ludicrous. The title alone of his previous narrative fe
Read full Post
Yes, teenagers can be terrifying. Anyone who's ever crossed the street to avoid whatever angst they might hurl at you out of boredom or unfounded antipathy knows thi
Read full Post
Sona Movsesian applied to be a production assistant on Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show ??and ended up becoming his assistant. The San Gabriel Valley native
Read full Post
You know that primly annoyed, nice-ish guy that Jason Bateman always plays? The straight-arrow whose barely-held-in disgust suggests that universal American feeling
Read full Post
None of us should give a crap about anything anyone says in Elstree 1976, but such is the nature of modern fandom that we do ? even those of us whose affection for S
Read full Post
People's memories of Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 Band of Outsiders (showing in a DCP restoration) tend to emphasize the obvious delights: the scene where the three yo
Read full Post
The long lineage of movies about witchcraft can be traced back to the silent film days when, in 1922, the dramatized documentary Häxan: Witchcraft Through the A
Read full Post
It's easy to think, based on the marketing, that the first feature film from acclaimed comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will be 100 minutes of an adora
Read full Post
If nothing else, Captain America: Civil War stands as something of a corrective to this spring's other superheroes-bludgeoning-each-other opus, Batman v Superman. Wh
Read full Post
