REVIEW – “One Night in Miami”: A Simple Conversation for a Growingly Complex Dialogue
If 2020 had reminded us of nothing else, it’s that we’ll never really break past a racial divide if the tear can never heal. It was true this year, and…
Joe Hammerschmidt
REVIEW – “Sylvie’s Love”: La La Land Meets the Harlem Shuffle
Disjointed as 2020’s year-end awards rush has been, with dates being drawn out through the spring, there’s little reason why we wouldn’t be invited into some mild form of romantic…
REVIEW – “Promising Young Woman”: Revenge Served Scalding Hot To Face of Toxicity
From the first moments where Carey Mulligan lights up the screen in her conservatively revealing outfit and Harley Quinn reminiscent makeup, we can tell she is serious. A business rooted…
REVIEW – “Another Round”: A Scholar’s Guide to Sufficient Inebriation
For all the time one spends in school, there may be a unique likelihood that we develop a second obsession while studying a certain professional major. And apparently in Thomas…
REVIEW – “Greenland”: Old-School Disaster Movie Gets Delightful 2020 Makeover
Scottish-born Gerard Butler has entered the 2020s as a differently evolved actor than how he had started his 2010s. Once the ruggedly bearded heartthrob who charmed with his vocal cords,…
REVIEW – “Nomadland”: A Great American Life, By Way of Van
Don’t we all want to live our best lives during every waking moment we have? Of course we do, that is an aspiration as classic in the American lexicon as…
REVIEW – “Songbird”: Exploitative Pandemic Drama Highlights 2020’s Worst Demons
Hotshot filmmaker Michael Bay (Armageddon) sure as heck knows how to read a room. Or doesn’t, depending on who you’re having a factual discussion of his work with. In all…
REVIEW – “Half Brothers”: Supposedly Heartfelt Family Bonding Trip Sour on the Inside
In the half-blind rush to cram and catch up on those last great (or not as) films to reach avid eyeballs in the final six weeks of the calendar year,…
REVIEW – “76 Days”: The Truth Hurts in Very 2020 Documentary
Nobody could possibly have imagined, even imagined the spiral our planet would’ve experienced when this period of pandemic anxiety began. When so much was still unknown about the virus, the…
REVIEW – “Uncle Frank”: Career-Best Paul Bettany Gets Frothy and Thoughtful
One must wonder how it could possibly have taken 13 years for Alan Ball to slip back into the director’s chair, at least on the film’s side. Of course, Six…