2018: Growing Up Skateboarding – Skate Kitchen, Mid90s and Minding the Gap
The coming-of-age subgenre has seen numerous transformation through the years. Independent films from all over the world have especially taken…
Bird Box [2018]: Netflix’s Most Popular Film Is Also The Most Problematic
Netflix, being the largest streaming platform, needs to be more responsible while depicting sensitive subjects like mental health and suicide.
Blindspotting [2018] Review: Change The Way You See
Pulsating with life, oozing with style, seething with rage, swirling with emotions & glistening with humanity, Blindspotting is a fresh,…
A Twelve-Year Night [2018] – A Heartbreaking Tale of Human Perseverance
A Twelve-Year Night, inspired by the true events and based on the book “Memorias del Calabozo” by Mauricio Rosencof and…
The Wild Pear Tree [2018] Review – An Ode to the discarded dreamers
A Young Graduate returns to his idyllic hometown – A Town decorated with history and a tourist Hotspot. The options…
Vice [2018] Review: Too Many Vices
The Big Short was my favorite film of 2015. I was ecstatic when Vice was announced as a re-teaming of…
Sairat [2016]: Exploration of Inter-sectional Identity in Indian Cinema
When the Marathi film Sairat (2016), directed by Nagraj Manjule released in 2016, it immediately drew attention from the audience…
A Spike Lee Joint: Crooklyn [1994]
Lee taps into his childhood, setting Crooklyn in the year and place when he was a kid. It’s not one of the more immediate or passionate of Lee’s films, but it still shines a bright spotlight on a community often not seen in films, yet alone seen in this bright of a light.