Earwig: The Witch’s Daughter
The headline about Earwig and the Witch is that this is the first computer-drawn animated film made by the Japanese outfit Studio Ghibli. While...
Supernova: We Are All Made of Stars
In my travels, I’ve come across numerous movies that were dull, bad, or ordinary yet had a single moment or scene that achieved greatness....
One Night in Miami: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
Fresh from winning a well-deserved Oscar for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk, Regina King now she makes her debut as a...
The Top 10 Movies of 2020 (Part 1)
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: the only people who want to make 2020 longer. This past...
Promising Young Woman: To Catch a Predator
Someone’s coming for you, all you rapists, sexual predators, and even you friends and colleagues who enable them. She doesn’t look like much, but...
Soul: I Am Not Joe’s Body
Much is rightly being made about Soul being the first Pixar movie with a Black man as the main character. I don’t want to...
WW84: Christmas Wishes
For the sequel to Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins finds a hook that she didn’t have for the previous film. The director makes Wonder Woman...
I’m Your Woman: Rogue Jean
Last year, Julia Hart caught my attention with her film Fast Color, and I’m still baffled why that science-fiction thriller didn’t get more attention....
The Prom: High School Musical
When Ryan Murphy was announced as the director of a filmed version of a recent Broadway musical, I and other watchers of his TV...
Ma Rainey: Levee Sings the Blues
When Chadwick Boseman died this past summer, we heard that he had one performance left in the can, a starring role in a film...
