Each bringing a new voice to the genre, with highly acclaimed debuts and successful follow-ups, these directors brought an unexpected resurgence to the ‘serious horror film’. With two films apiece and six likely future classics between them, it is safe to say that we have a new big three in horror filmmaking. This is my definitive ranking of the six feature films of Peele, Eggers, and Aster.
Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s infuriating and impassioned documentary Aftershock (2022) explores the abysmal maternal mortality rate among Black women in the US. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) stats…
The Birth “….”Have you ever seen anything like it, Miss Lillian?” “Never, Mr. Griffith.” No one ever had……” This was the conversation between Miss Lillian Gish and D W Griffith as they…
Patrick O’Connor’s 2021 documentary “Look Away, Look Away” opens and closes with two very powerful and disturbing events that earmarked racial hatred in the past decade. With broad strokes, O’Connor looks at…
Steve McQueen made the Oscar-winning film ’12 Years a Slave,’ but did not win one for directing it. He is, however, the first Black filmmaker to win Best Picture. ‘Small Axe,’ an…
The coming-of-age subgenre has seen numerous transformation through the years. Independent films from all over the world have especially taken up the theme of growing up with ultimate grace and sincerity –…
