Film

Crazy Rich Asians (2018): The Flawed But Necessary Asian-American Cultural Milestone

A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) (2016)

Koe no Katachi is a bit of dream project for me. I enjoyed the source material written and…

Hot Docs 2017

I didn’t expect to watch as many films as I did during the festival, but the student pass certainly helped encourage watching films…

Your Name (2016)

Makoto Shinkai is the perhaps the standard bearer for the idea of the onenote director. His films all feature the same images and…

Tower (2016)

It’s not often that a film challenges my preconceptions of the medium or genre. Certainly, an animated documentary about the first mass…

Get Out (2017)

Jordan Peele’s debut film caught me completely by surprised. Buoyed by the (at the time) unanimous positive reception of the film, I…

Hidden Figures (2016)

Broadly speaking, Hidden Figures is a great compliment to The Astronauts Wives Club a television miniseries from 2015…

Fences (2016) and Moonlight (2016)

I watched these two films as a double bill more by accident than by design, but their thematic similarities lend to reviewing them together. Fences and Moonlight both portray men in periods of transition, as both Troy and Little/Chiron/Black try to negotiate the…

Manchester By The Sea (2016)

Manchester by the Sea provides a glimpse into the life of a man who is defined by tragedy. It was interesting…

Arrival (2016)

As always, spoilers ahead.

Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival feels very much in line with his previous two films…