With her last feature directorial credit being contributions to 1991's Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, Eleanor Coppola is perhaps better known as ...
There's often a genuine dramatic pull to films in the courtroom drama genre, yet they've suffered the last few decades because of the conventional tropes that c...
Festival films about teenage angst are a dime a dozen, or maybe a nickel at this point. The genre is as constrained by its expected tropes as horror or superher...
There's something about boxing movies that gets butts in seats regardless of so many being practically the same story. The formula almost always concerns some t...
During his college days in New York, Barack Obama used to be called “Barry.” At that point in time he hadn’t fully embraced his African American roots yet, but ...
The synopsis for Carrie Pilby can sound atrocious on paper. Most films utilizing an eighteen-year old Harvard graduate do so as periphery color because the trop...
Sometimes you just can’t escape the past. Moments that have shaped you and made you who you are today can happen at any time without you even knowing it. They c...
There's been no shortage of Lyndon B. Johnson depictions on film as of late, with Ava DuVernay capturing the 36th U.S. president as an arrogant man trying to di...
We live in a post-Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping world, and thus we need to act accordingly. So we have to take with a grain of salt Justin Timberlake when ...
In The Giant, what lives and breathes as a compelling documentary morphs quickly into a kind of mythological fantasy when it steps outside its mode of social re...
