Pedro Almodovar is in my book among the five greatest living directors in the world and an auteur among auteurs. His films are colorful and full of vibrant characters out of daily...
In November, I was very lucky to have won the National Association of Film Critics (@NAFilmCritics) prize of a copy of Criterion's new release, Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons. I had not seen the film...
James Cameron, Denis Villeneuve, Norman Jewison, Jean-Marc Vallee and Jason Reitman are among of the most notable directors from the North who have succeeded in Hollywood. Of course, there is the countless...
Andrei Tarkovsky made seven feature films before his passing in 1986, aged 54. Yet, in a twenty-odd year career, coming from a country that survived in part because of censorship of religion,...
Of stories about immigration and leaving for a better life, on hardship and triumph, these films are the ultimate standout on a family journey to place new seeds in a sometimes unforgiving...
Film noir is a genre that had the aesthetics in the years before the 1940s when a swarm of crime dramas came out that in natural black-and-white, focused on the cynical nature...
In honor of Steve McQueen's upcoming Widows, his first feature since his Best Picture-winning 12 Years A Slave, it is time I'd write something a little more contemporary. It has been 10 years since he debuted...
A fact about me: I have a Masters in Political Science, yet I now regret even going into that cesspool of red tape, democratic authoritarianism, pettiness, greed, power lust, gaslighting, ratfucking, cockblocking,...
