Within Jeff Lipsky’s films, it is common for one character to speak uninterrupted for about ten minutes and yet other characters do not place interruption during the fifteen minutes that are given to them. You have to just… follow… the rule. Or, not. You don’t “have” to do anything. When a director, particularly if he […]
“What you think about girls’ boxing?” The man asking that is Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry), the coach of a boys’ boxing club located in Flint, Michigan. It’s 2012, and five years before he’d allowed one girl to join his club (even though it was against protocol): a coiled 11-year-old scowler named Claressa Shields, played
Faith of Angels: I would say that the faith-based genre is one of the genres that I can contend with the best of my colleagues in the arena of film criticism. Having said that I do understand the pitfalls that the genre has to the extent that it is one of the reasons why many
Primarily, music serves as an instrument of both entertainment and oppression, combining the masses, frivolous content and less the people, but with the lief. The ‘people love rock music’ philosophy makes individuals such as the middle class and the revolutionary… okay, that is too much. So again, what is music, or what are the roles
Bird: This project is all hers; she leads and tackles every stage. Eight years ago, the writer-director Andrea Arnold put away her brands of kitchen-sink British austerity in a handheld camera and crossed the pond to shoot “American Honey”, a film about kids in a van who capture the energy and chaos of 21st century
The sluggish first two-thirds of the short story “A Sacrifice” is even more dominant but offers no new information to the audiences and only what they have seen several times before. No one can even say that it is horrible, it is instead a typical boring film in which you gradually forget the name of
Christopher W. Skotchdopole’s debut feature “Crumb Catcher” which was released eight years ago and this, sounds an even longer time ago when compared to how dated works by Mario Bava and frankly, even the subtitle says, is about a thin parasite of an American wife grasping at some affluent husband. In this combination of eccentric
Being a follower of the Christian pop duo for KING & COUNTRY, or even having a shred of interest in their type of music, seems to help appreciating the drama called “Unsung Hero.” For the rest of the viewers, it can be viewed as a dull-minded feel-good story of nobleness achieving victory against great odds,
As impassive and melancholic as a chrysanthemum, the adolescent Zac suddenly puts on Lacy Ziegler’s wedding attire in the middle of summer camp and begs her mother (Janet Nicholson) to pick her up early. The urgency was palpable. “I’m going to kill myself…,” she states matter-of-factly. “I said I’m going to kill myself until you
Oh Canada: In a more contemplative and restrained manner, Paul Schrader, who has before been among the most incendiary filmmakers of his generation in what can be compared to a runaway taxi driver, respectfully remembers his recently deceased friend, novelist Russell Banks, who provided the writer-director with the material for one of his best films
