Welcome back to “Black History Movie Month,” where I will start this month off with the 1962 classic directed by Robert Mulligan, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The screenplay by Horton Foote was based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Harper Lee. A Pulitzer Prize winner when it was published in […]
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At some point, maybe it’s when the main character outrun an erupting volcano or maybe that time a trained velociraptor heroically jumps to their help against a much bigger, stronger dinosaur, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” crosses over from the world of the fantastic to the silly. Greg Maki said in his review, “I know the entire […]
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Blade Runner 2049
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To say Bajrangi Bhaijaan is geared towards maximum emotional impact is an understatement. It is engineered for it. Its parts have been carefully assembled so as to make you laugh every other scene, tear up every 10 minutes. One normally gets this kind of emotional walloping with a Rajkumar Hirani film, but Bajrangi Bhaijaan hits […]
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Bong Joon-ho’s Best Picture winner might already be perfect, but a new monochrome version only serves to make it all the more striking. Bong Joon-ho’s subversive masterpiece Parasite might be one of the most vibrant, dangerous films we were lucky enough to see in the 2010s – a film delicious for all its colours, both literally and […]
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