Film Archives

Cuties is the product of perverse people who are perverse consumers who drive a capitalistic structure to give us what we want.

It took Sam Mendes making Skyfall and Spectre to give us a Bond to whom we could all relate.

COVID-19 has become our society’s most recent real-life monster.

The deaths of young celebrities lead to collective shock and grief because of the unique roles performers hold in society.

Choosing to play Thurgood Marshall and Black Panther while facing multiple surgeries and going through chemotherapy could not have been easy. But Chadwick Boseman understood his purpose. 

If Exodus voices our collective hunger for deliverance, it also calls us to work for deliverance, toward liberatory action.

The lesson is that if we don’t tell the true stories, if we fail to pass them down to future generations, the lies will rush into the vacuum and take over.

Even though How to Train Your Dragon should be a very silly story, sometimes very silly stories manage to say the very best things.

Alexander is redeemed, not because he deserves it, but because Eliza grants redemption to him.

The Quarry suggests that the awareness of our own sinfulness violently awakens us to our need for a new life.

We must also educate ourselves, immersing ourselves in the stories and experiences of the Black communities and individuals in America.

Wade and Kevin get back to basics with a review of Josh Trank’s unconventional small-budget film examining the last year of the infamous gangster’s life.

Wade and Kevin wrap up their auteur series with a look at the work of America’s foremost purveyor of immaculately framed family dysfunction: Wes Anderson.

Wade and Kevin continue their auteur study with David Fincher as they rank their Top 10 David Fincher films and see the common elements in his work.

Kelly Reichardt is the next subject of our 2020 Auteur series. A major figure in film, Kelly Reichardt’s quiet, understaded style has left a large impact.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fury Road offers a glimpse of coming renewal, of rebirth.