Next Goal Wins
Can you call a film formulaic if it’s based on things that really happened? Maybe. As with any movie, it’s all about the tone and style: the choices made by the storytellers. “Next Goal Wins” is a case study, unfortunately. It’s an…
Can you call a film formulaic if it’s based on things that really happened? Maybe. As with any movie, it’s all about the tone and style: the choices made by the storytellers. “Next Goal Wins” is a case study, unfortunately. It’s an…
When D. Smith’s “Kokomo City” premiered at Sundance this year, Nick Allen wrote, “The women interviewed here—Liyah Mitchell, Dominque Silver, Koko Da Doll, and Daniella Carter—are scholars of their experience. Smith empowers them throughout, giving them space in the edit and with each…
“To own who you are is up to you. No one should make you feel ashamed of that…” Elevation Pictures in Canada has debuted the official trailer for an indie coming-of-age comedy titled Fitting In, from filmmaker Molly McGlynn. This…
Like the monarchy, Netflix’s hit show “The Crown” has struggled with a rapid decline in public perception. It was initially lauded as a beautifully rendered, intricate character drama depicting some of the highs and lows of 20th-century British history through…
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat … all will be carved, this Thanksgiving,” Eli Roth has finally delivered on the promise of his mock trailer that played between Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s films…
“I wasn’t very good at having all this stuff locked inside of me…” MetFilm Distribution has revealed their trailer for Ronnie: The Edge of Everything, a documentary film about a sports legend named Ronnie O’Sullivan. Only some will recognize his…
“Mountains,” director Monica Sorelle’s richly personal directorial feature debut, is an eloquently composed story of a Haitian-American family navigating the gentrification arising in their Miami neighborhood of Little Haiti. Told through several perspectives, Sorelle and co-writer Robert Colom’s lithe script…
With the arrival of the 29th annual Black Harvest Film Festival, I am once again reminded of the spirit of the late, great Sergio Mims. This is the first year of a lineup not composed by him, the founder of…
“If you go anywhere near our family, there will be no where on earth you will be safe again.” Damn! Don’t mess with her. Netflix has revealed the first look teaser trailer for a new action comedy series titled The…
Transgender philosopher-filmmaker Paul B. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Biography” starts with footage of the filmmaker on a city street at night, wheatpasting posters with slogans, questions, and cryptic statements, and only becomes more playfully abstruse from there. The film is “political” in that…