Due to the type of administrative mix-up that always happens in the movie but rarely in real life, a college has assigned female student Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle) to share a dorm room with two males, Eddy (Josh Charles) and Stuart (Stephen Baldwin). Stuart is an outwardly obnoxious jock while Eddy is a sensitive and […]
via Threesome (1994, directed by Andrew Fleming) — Through the Shattered Lens
Pete Davidson plays a man-child that cannot get out of his own way in this irresistible dramedy that cements his status as the latest Saturday Night Live cast member bound for big screen stardom. Judd Apatow’s first feature directing job since 2015’s Trainwreck is one of the best films of his career. A screenplay by […]
Let’s get one thing clear right from the start: Shirley, the movie about acclaimed writer Shirley Jackson, is not a conventional biopic of the reclusive yet incisive author of The Haunting of Hill House and stories like “The Lottery.” The movie is based on a novel by Susan Scarf Merrell, also called Shirley, and depicts […]
Amar Sall shares his Black Storytelling watchlist with BRICKS, featuring films, television shows and documentaries celebrating Black voices.
via A Comprehensive Watchlist of Black Storytelling — BRICKS Magazine
For my first review, I wanted to watch a movie that I had seen before and knew was good, but also one that I feel I may not have fully appreciated the first time around. My first and most recent viewing of this movie was in 2017 and I remember somewhat enjoying it, but many of the exact plot details had since slipped my mind. Nevertheless, considering it is a personal favorite of someone whose movie opinion I regard very highly, I felt it was time to give it another shot. Here is my review for Hell or High Water:
With civil disobedience and protests at an apex the last week after the murder of George Floyd and the killing is several other African-Americans, it is important to think about a time when a southern President who prior to 1957, had opposed Civil; Rights effectively partnered with Martin Luther King Jr. The amount of scholarship […]
via #Blacklivesmatter: LBJ and MLK Jr., Civil Rights passage, reading and viewing — The Florida Squeeze
[ad_1] The announcement that we would be returning to the science fiction world of The Matrix came as quite the shock. With the trilogy having wrapped up all the way back in 2003, it was assumed that the story of rebel fighters Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus was over and done with. Well, the surprise was […]
AMI VITAL Nikon Ambassador and National Geographic magazine photographer Ami Vitale has traveled to more than 100 countries, bearing witness not only to violence and conflict, but also to surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Throughout the years, Ami has lived in mud huts and war zones, contracted malaria, and donned […]
via Amazing Female Photographers You Should Know — International Journal of Research (IJR)
No joke, man. Netflix is churning out a lot of film choices in the last few years, or have at least become a monumental distribution point for smaller budget and foreign made films. They have become for European and Asian filmmakers (for example) in 2020 what MTV was for independent artists and music labels from […]
via Small Screen Quarantine – Extinction (2018) — What rough beast
Best known for her three hour portrait of a woman slowly devolving, Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman would have turned seventy today. While her canonized lengthy epic is a point of much discussion, it is a colossal affair that may be intimidating for many. Though it in itself […]
via Chantal Akerman: 10 Films to Explore a Staggering Career — Cinema Etc.
First Scene Screenplay Festival 