REVIEW: Skin
- July 22, 2019
- by
- Ivan Moore
Could you have sympathy for a white supremacist? This feels like one of the main questions the movie Skin, based on the true story of ex-neo Nazi Bryon Widner, asks, and, to be honest, when I started the film I was mad. Israeli-born filmmaker Guy Nattiv desired a documentary feel to the dark deeds Widner performed along with his white surpremacist group, and it made me furious. The film opens in 2009 at a rally in Columbus, OH that brings to mind more recent events like the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA....
REVIEW: The Last Black Man in San Francisco
- June 30, 2019
- by
- Heather Moore
“Do you love San Francisco?”
“I don’t know. I mean I’m here.”
“You don’t get to hate it unless you love it.”
This exchange...
REVIEW: Booksmart
- May 30, 2019
- by
- Heather Moore
“It’s like Superbad but with girls.”
That’s the description I have often heard of Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut, Booksmart. This is a coming-of-age comedy about...
REVIEW: See You Yesterday
- May 27, 2019
- by
- Ivan Moore
What is it about time travel that brings storytellers back to the concept again and again? There have been countless movies, TV shows, comics,...
REVIEW: Tolkien
- May 14, 2019
- by
- Ivan Moore
Have you ever seen the Saturday morning cartoon Captain Planet? With its infectious theme song (“Captain Planet, he’s our hero. Gonna take pollution down...
SPOILER ALERT: Another Avengers: Endgame REVIEW
- May 09, 2019
- by
- Ivan Moore
Every time I think about the history-making finale to Marvel’s Infinity Saga, my mind swells with the sweet sound of Adele’s hit from another...
The Women of Marvel Ask, “What is a girl worth?”
- May 06, 2019
- by
- Heather Moore
I first heard this question posed by real life superhero Rachel Denhollander at the trial of Larry Nassar. Denhollander is a lawyer and...
REVIEW: Avengers Endgame
- April 29, 2019
- by
- Ivan Moore
C.S. Lewis is often quoted in A Grief Observed, “…pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in...
REVIEW: Shazam
- March 28, 2019
- by
- Ivan Moore
Lex Luthor stands before his arch nemesis, the fully human/fully Kryptonian savior of the masses, Superman. A showdown of fists awaits Superman over in...
REVIEW: The Boy who Harnessed the Wind
- March 07, 2019
- by
- Ivan Moore
What were you doing at 13? Many of us, our bodies entrenched in the chaos of puberty, were professional eye rollers. Discovering rebellion for...