Much has been said about how 2016 was an unusually tragic and surprising year. If you were to compare it to a movie, you might say it was like Dr. Strangelove meets Terms of Endearment meets The Apprentice written & directed by M Night Shyamalan. Indeed, it was a historically Read more…
Birth of a Nation (October 7th) Nate Parker’s directorial debut premiered to raves at Sundance earlier this year, was purchased by Fox Searchlight for a record $17.5 million, and almost immediately became the subject of heated debate. At the time, in the heat of yet another lily-white Oscars season, the Read more…
Westworld Pilot Review by Charlie Woodrow “Westworld” is an exciting, violent, sophisticated, and confusing sci-fi Western that is set in the future but takes place mainly in the past. The show follows an amusement park modeled after the Wild West and inhabited by artificially intelligent human robots. The park’s visitors Read more…
“Snowden” is a gripping biopic and spy thriller based on the world’s most famous whistleblower Edward Snowden. One of the most controversial figures in popular culture and politics, he is maligned as a traitor and praised as a hero to an almost equal degree. In Oliver Stone’s “Snowden”, he is Read more…
