• The Color Purple (2023) – Review

    The Color Purple (2023) is directed by Blitz Bazawule and stars Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Halle Bailey, H.E.R., Ciara, and David Alan Grier. The film is a musical remake of Steven Speilberg’s The Color Purple (1985) and follows the life of Nettie (Barrino & Mpasi),…

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  • Anatomy of a Fall (2023) – Review

    Anatomy of a Fall (2023) is directed by Justine Triet and stars Sandra Huller, Milo Machado Graner, Swann Arlaud, Antoine Reinartz, Jehnny Beth, and Samuel Theis. The film follows writer Sandra Voyter (Huller) and her blind son, Daniel (Graner) after their husband/father, Samuel (Theis) dies after falling from the top floor of their secluded family…

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  • Past Lives (2023) – Review

    Past Lives (2023) is directed by Celine Song and stars Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and Joe Magaro. The film follows Nora (Lee), whose South Korean family immigrates to the United States when she is just a pre-teen. 12 years later, Nora’s childhood love interest, Hae (Yoo) reconnects with her through social media. The two become…

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  • American Fiction (2023) – Review

    American Fiction (2023) is directed by Cord Jefferson and stars Jeffery Wright, Erika Alexander, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Leslie Uggams, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Adam Brody, and Myra Lucretia Taylor. The film follows author Thelonius “Monk” Ellison whose novels consistently fail to find any commercial success. Fed up with what is seen by…

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  • I.S.S. (2024) – Review

    I.S.S. (2024) – Review

    I.S.S. is directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and stars Ariana DeBose, John Gallagher Jr, Pilou Asbaek, Chris Messina, Masha Mashkova, and Costa Ronin. The film follows American and Russian astronauts working toward common goals aboard the International Space Station. When a nuclear conflict between the two countries breaks out on Earth, both teams of astronauts are…

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  • The Book of Clarence (2024) – Review

    The Book of Clarence (2024) is directed by Jeymes Samuel and stars LaKeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, Anna Diop, Omar Sy, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Micheal Ward, Nicholas Pinnock, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Alfe Woodard, Teyana Taylor, Caleb McLaughlin, David Oyelowo, James McAvoy, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The film follows the story of a humble rule-breaker named Clarence (Stanfield). When Clarence…

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  • Sicario (2015) – Review

    Sicario (2015) is directed by Denis Villeneuve and stars Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya, Maximiliano Hernandez, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal, and Julio Cesar Cedillo. The film follows a by-the-book FBI agent, Kate (Blunt) as she is recruited into a specialized government task force. The task force’s goal is to create chaos…

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  • The Beekeeper (2024) – Review

    The Beekeeper (2024) is directed by David Ayer and stars Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Jeremy Irons, Bobby Naderi, Jemma Redgrave, Taylor James, and David Witts. The film follows Adam Clay (Statham), a seemingly ordinary beekeeper who forms a mother-son relationship with an elderly woman who allows him to work on her property. After…

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  • Mean Girls (2024) – Review

    Mean Girls (2024) is directed by Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr. and stars Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli’i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Christopher Briney, Bebe Wood, Avantika, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Mahi Alam, Busy Phillips, Jenna Fischer, and Jon Hamm. The film closely follows the plot of Mean Girls (2004) but adds various musical elements.…

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  • The Color Purple (1985) – Review

    The Color Purple (1985) is directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Willard E. Pugh. The film chronicles the life of Celie Johnson over four decades during the early 1900s. As a child, she grows up with her younger sister, Nettie. Celie and Nettie are the best…

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