First, he teaches him how to drive: “No, you gotta get it up to 50, 60, even 70 miles per hour!” Then, he’s teaching him how to shoot a gun: “the first rule of gun fightin’ is havin’ a gun.”…
Movie Review: ‘Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension’
Looking back at the first installment in the Paranormal Activity franchise, it’s difficult to comprehend how we got to where we are now. Aside from the third film, I’ve found that the financial success of this series has come at…
Movie Review: “Jem and the Holograms”
Certain movies these days try to get by on appealing to people’s nostalgia. Remakes and reboots of franchises and properties from American youth have become more and more commonplace in Hollywood. But once in a while, Hollywood gets the nostalgia…
Movie Review: ‘Suffragette’
Suffragette, like last year’s Selma, benefits from the fact that its release is coinciding with several social justice movements. The release of Selma seemed perfectly timed, highlighting the similarities between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter. But the…
Ally’s Movie Review: Room
In the cinematic landscape we are fed quite a few “power of love” concepts over the course of a year, heck, in storytelling in general. Rarely however, have I seen that idea tackled with as much rigorous raw emotion as…
Movie Review – ‘Difret’
One of the great blessings of the cinema of Ousmane Sembène, the de facto father of African cinema, was the insistence that Africa has the power and will to fix its own problems; that they didn’t need the efforts of…