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Movie Review: ‘The Six Triple Eight’ is Cheap and Hollow

Director: Armani Ortiz, Tyler PerryWriter: Kevin Hymel, Tyler PerryStars: Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson Synopsis: 855 women joined the war to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and...

Chasing the Gold: RaMell Ross on ‘Nickel Boys’ And Adapting the Essential and New Visual Poetics

RaMell Ross is the co-writer and director of Nickel Boys a story spanning decades from the segregation era, the emergence of the Civil Rights movement, through to the early part of the...

Chasing The Gold Interview: Nicolaj Kopernikus, Director and Star of ‘From Above’

After watching From Above, an intense short film directed, written, and starred by Nicolaj Kopernikus, I realized how powerful art is. Here, the main protagonist barely says a word, yet the short,...

Chasing the Gold: “Wicked,” “Emilia Pérez” and a Game of Best Picture Musical Chairs

Since the advent of movie sound, there have been movie musicals. Their power has waned over the years, but there is almost always one that a big studio will take a chance...

Chasing the Gold: Overlooked Precursor Pulls Cinematography Race into Focus

The Oscar race’s precursor phase is generally thought to kick off once the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), National Board of Review (NBR), and a...

Tracing the Evolution of Psychic Cinema: A Digest of the Best and the Most Underrated Movies

Since the get-go of cinematography, supernatural themes have taken a great place. Psychic abilities are also a source of enormous narrative options for filmmakers nowadays.  But, there is a great difference between early...

Movie Review: ‘Juror #2’ is Worth the Wait

Director: Clint EastwoodWriter: Jonathan A. AbramsStars: Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons Synopsis: While serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, a family man finds himself struggling with a serious moral...

Criterion Collection: December 2024

For the final month of 2024, Criterion has a stacked lineup of two re-releases and four new additions to the closet. While Fellini and Wim Wenders get a second life with a...

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