1. BAD AXE As of this writing, David Siev’s compelling film about his own Cambodian American parents struggling to keep…
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With so much to laugh—and cry—about in today’s topsy-turvy world, the challenge of directing a social comedy in 2022 is…
For whatever reason, 2022 has been the year of directors reflecting on how they got their start as filmmakers. Perhaps…
When Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” came out in 1985, the author said that the violence against women…
George Bernard Shaw said, “Life is not about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” American Artists understand this perhaps better…
Just like the movie industry is back to a local theater near you, with varying degrees of success after the…
Writer-director Taika Waititi’s follow-up to his delirious Thor: Ragnarok, which is near the peak of all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies,…
by Andrew Osborne While many of the projects screened this year at South by Southwest are still making the rounds…
“Mothering Sunday” is a quiet, slow sensual adaptation from the Graham Swift romantic novella of the same name. While all…
The Top Five Movies I Saw at SXSW 2022 As always, it was impossible to see everything at the 2022…
In 2020, the cancellation of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas was an early indication that COVID-19 was just about…
There are so many interesting and intriguing aspects to the Iranian film, “A Hero” by writer/director Asghar Farhadi. Not least…
Best of 2021 (Movies) by Andrew Osborne 1. SUMMER OF SOUL Link Like its streaming service companion, Get Back, this…
Evelyn Reed, the Marxist anthropologist author of “Women’s Evolution,” was debating the existence of cannibalism in Africa, when she took…