Cannes has always prided itself in cinematic controversy and this year It didn’t take much time for the anticipated, but controversial screening of Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja” to create a stir. The film started off being booed not for its…
Movie Review: Letters from Baghdad
Despite claims of progressiveness and equality, the fields of twentieth century science, art, and history are bulging with pioneering women who, for one reason or another, have been been shuffled aside in favor of their male colleagues. Rosalind Franklin, Gertrude…
Movie Review: Wonder Woman
To be good is not to be boring, a concept that has baffled many a superhero film in the past. And yet, here we are with Patty Jenkins’s directed Wonder Woman and it’s a film without an inch of cynicism,…
Movie Review: Baywatch
The only thing to say about the Baywatch movie is that it could have been worse. Really. Then again, Hollywood probably should’ve known better than to try to update it, even in our current era of endless reboots, prequels, sequels,…
Movie Review: The Women’s Balcony
The subject of faith has always been tightly intertwined with Israeli cinema, and in recent years some of the most thought-provoking films on the subject have originated there. For a nation torn between secular modernization and maintaining an ancient ethnoreligious…
Movie Review: The Beguiled
When Clint Eastwood starred in the 1971 Don Siegel drama The Beguiled it was a means of changing up his persona, showing that the action hero could play a leading man who literally drives women to madness. The film is…
Movie Review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Guy Ritchie’s take on the King Arthur legend plays like a 180 million dollar book report written by the worst student in the class. While the madman behind Snatch may have glanced at the original Arthurian text at some point,…