In this current age, the war film as a piece of genre filmmaking has grown complicated. For every "America First"-heavy remake like last year's Midway, there i...
Discovering Sy Rogers was a big deal for me. As a gay kid in Pensacola, FL, I learned early on that my “same-sex attraction”––as it’s often called in conservat...
The aftershock of November 8, 2016 has been felt most fundamentally on a human level, as vital rights have been stripped from the underserved and overlooked me...
In the new documentary King of the Cruise, to put it in the simplest of terms, a king takes a cruise. This journey is a God’s eye tour of the Celebrity Eclipse...
At the same time when Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964–which explicitly prohibits discrimination based on "race, color, religion, sex, or national ori...
A dazzling and frank dance musical (with, truth be told, very little memorable music), Boaz Yakin’s Aviva is an ambitious picture free from the restraints of t...
A timely but confusing mess of styles, tones, and subject matter, Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods zigzags between the director’s trademark topical diatribes on race an...
Always bold to some degree, seldom less than ambitious, William Friedkin's career as a filmmaker has resulted in countless awards; box offices records broken; ...
There's
a moment in Jeremy Hersh's feature directorial debut The Surrogate where a heated argument devoid of any correct answers
reaches the inevitable questio...
Max (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is an insurance adjuster who just told his latest client that her claim wouldn't be approved since her husband's six-month disappea...