white privilege

Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020: WHAT DO YOU HAVE LOOSE
Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020: WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE

What Do You Have to Loose takes a deep look into how the results of the 2016 election came to be from the view point of racial discrimination.

SKIN: Sells Itself Short
SKIN: Sells Itself Short

Skin manages a few gripping moments thanks to its cast but can’t string them together into something meaningful.

BEATRIZ AT DINNER & Trump At The Movies

Beatriz at Dinner is one of the earliest reactionary films of the Trump Era. The question remains whether or not it has any answers for the current climate.

Of Ennui and Animalia: American Boredom in Thoroughbreds and American Animals
Of Ennui & Animalia: American Boredom In THOROUGHBREDS & AMERICAN ANIMALS

Lily, Amanda, Spencer, and Warren are all a bit bored. School sucks. Growing up isn’t easy. So they join the canon of bored white folks who look that boredom in the eye and turn to violence.

THREE BILLBOARDS, Rotten Tomatoes & A Call For Diversity
THREE BILLBOARDS, Rotten Tomatoes & A Call For Diversity

Why are many critics giving the problematic Three Billboards a pass? Shawn offers his take and advocates for a focus on critical diversity.

BEATRIZ AT DINNER: At the Table With The Devil
BEATRIZ AT DINNER: At The Table With The Devil

It’s rare that a film will come along and synthesize the era we live in so succinctly as Miguel Arteta’s Beatriz At Dinner.