Movie Review: Hit the Road (2021)
Howard Schumann
"Hit the road Jack and don't you come back, No more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more" — Percy Mayfield A road trip that builds on Abbas Kiarostami's "A Taste of Cherry" and Jafar Panahi's "Taxi," Jafar's son Panah has built on his father's…
Movie Review: Happening (2021)
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved" — Victor Hugo Winner of the Golden Lion Award at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, Audrey Diwan's ("Losing It") harrowing abortion drama Happening takes place in rural France during the 1960s, a decade before abortion was legalized in France. Based on the memoir by Annie…
Movie Review: Playground (2021)
There was a popular book written in the late 1980s by Robert Fulghum named "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten," It is filled with tried and true lessons about growing up: "Hold hands and stick together," "play fair," "look at yourself," and other snippets of suggestions we learn about early in…
Movie Review: The Power of the Dog (2021)
"You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph" — Neil Gaiman In the opening of the film, The Power of the Dog, Peter Gordon (Kodi Smit-McPhee, "Dark Phoenix"), a Montana cattle rancher's future nephew, whispers in…
Movie Review: After Yang (2021)
"I wanna be just like a melody, just like a simple sound, like in harmony" — Glide from "All About Lily Chou-Chou" Projections of the future in cinema have mainly foreseen a world where war, disease, and pervasive alienation are the norm. Korean-born writer/director Kogonada's vision of the future, however, is not a dystopian world…
Movie Review: The Batman (2022)
Vincent Gaine
It begins with rapid titles. "WB," "DC," The Batman, all flash up on screen quickly, before an opening point-of-view shot through binoculars takes in a well-dressed man in an opulent mansion. Watching, observing, planning and judging, this extended shot is unsettling in its voyeurism, especially as the viewer shares the perspective of this watcher, who…
Movie Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes" — Macbeth Act 4, Scene 1 Pronouncements telling us that fair is foul, good is bad, and dark is light are what you might expect to hear from the propaganda machine of an ambitious politician or a news organization seeking to sow confusion. In…
Movie Review: The Reckoning (2020)
Movie Review: Force Majeure (2014)
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