Toba Singer
If the phrase “History is written by the victors” has become a truism, here is the film that takes the would-be victor, fascism, and transforms its own records and documents into a mirror of its perfidy. It also stands ...
Andrew OsborneAustin,
On May 23, 1934 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, the gangster duo Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were (spoiler alert!) ambushed and shot to death (and then some) by a posse of ...
Asher Luberto
You may be lining up for, or are already in line for "Captain Marvel". The superhero who soars through the sky surrounded by flames like a newly lit match. But this time there's a twist. Captain ...
Asher Luberto
For Chilean director Sebastian Lelio, life is like a waltz. We switch from dance partner to dance partner striving for connection. And hell, if we don't find one, we might as well go down dancing. ...
Andrew OsborneAustin,
March is set to come in like a lion once more at the 31st running of the legendary Austin, TX pop culture lollapalooza known as SXSW. Founded in 1987 as a ...
Paula Farmer
What the Spanish family drama/suspense thriller “Everybody Knows” may lack in twists and intrigue, it makes up for in performances and appeal from the three principal actors, Penelope Cruz, Javier ...
Toba Singer
In the novel, “Smilla’s Sense of Snow,” we learn that Eskimos have more than one hundred words for what is wet, white, and falls from the sky in cold weather. The current-day Avant Garde ...
Asher Luberto
Two kids wrestle for the T.V. remote. A young boy wishes to watch his idol Dwayne Johnson, back when he had a surplus of hair and was the sans pareil ...
Asher Luberto
There's an adage that goes something like this: 'teamwork makes the dream work.' You've heard it before. It makes sense that it has become the unofficial motto for DreamWorks Animation, whose success is predicated on ...
Philip Huang
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2018, spends much of its screen time inside a cramped Tokyo hovel where three generations of castoffs and grifters--headed by a matriarch known only as Grandma (the great ...
