Tag: Poem
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“Emilia Pérez: A Bold Fusion of Genres and Stellar Performances”
MOVIE INFO: From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña),…
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Heretic: Hugh Grant Plays His Mystique to See if There Really are Children of a Leser God
MOVIE INFO: Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse. REVIEW: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the dynamic duo behind “Heretic,” have once again delivered a thought-provoking cinematic experience…
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Janet Planet: A Poetic Exploration of Mother-Daughter Bonds
MOVIE INFO: In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child’s experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly…
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The Substance”: A Bold Satire on Beauty Culture with a Standout Performance by Demi Moore
MOVIE INFO: Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every way. You should try this new product, it’s called The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE. With The Substance, you can generate another you: younger, more beautiful, more perfect. You just have to share time — one week for…
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Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal Adult” Breathes New Life into Vampire Lore
MOVIE INFO: Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon…
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Venom: The Last Dance – A Symbiotic Swan Song That Stumbles”
MOVIE INFO: In Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy returns as Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest and most complex characters, for the final film in the trilogy. Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that…
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MaXXXine: A Dazzling Dive of a Mess into 80s Hollywood with Mia Goth’s Interesting Performance.
MOVIE INFO: In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. REVIEW: MaXXXine is a vibrant and thrilling but messy conclusion to Ti West’s “X” trilogy, It captures the…
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‘Woman of the Hour’: A Chilling Debut with Room for Growth
MOVIE INFO: An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in ’70s LA when they’re cast on an episode of “The Dating Game.” Based on a true story. REVIEW: Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour,” offers a gripping yet uneven exploration of a chilling true-crime story. Set against the backdrop of…
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Brothers: A Tale of Sibling Rivalry and Redemption, with Mixed Results
MOVIE INFO: Brothers tells the story of a reformed criminal (Josh Brolin) whose attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother (Peter Dinklage) on a cross-country road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must heal their…
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Wolfs – A Mixed Bag of Clooney-Pitt Charm and Chaos
MOVIE INFO: Global superstars George Clooney and Brad Pitt team up for the action comedy Wolfs. Clooney plays a professional fixer hired to cover up a high profile crime. But when a second fixer (Pitt) shows up and the two “lone wolves” are forced to work together, they find their night spiraling out of control…
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‘It’s What’s Inside: A Body-Swap Bash that Dances on the Edge of Delight and Disappointment”
MOVIE INFO: A group of friends gather for a pre-wedding party that descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires and grudges. REVIEW: In Greg Jardin’s debut feature, It’s What’s Inside, we are thrust into a world where the mundane and the fantastical collide with…
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Not Touched but Moved
Death has left its imprint on me so much I don’t know who is touching me inside anymore.Certainly it’s another presence,a voice apart from God.Or is God the sum total of all my known deaths?My soul is an oarless canoe afloat a lake of tearsseeking both initiation and response to steer it. Every death is…
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The Apprentice: Trump and Cohn: A Toxic Alliance
MOVIE INFO: A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé…
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“‘Saturday Night’: A Nostalgic Dive into the Chaos and Comedy of SNL’s Origins”
MOVIE INFO: At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television — and culture — forever. Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to…
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Will & Harper: A Heartfelt Journey of Friendship and Self-Discovery”
MOVIE INFO: Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his dear friend of nearly 30 years was coming out to him as a trans woman. That friend was Harper Steele, a writer he met on his first day at Saturday Night Live back in 1995. From…
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Little Father
Because I can not bury my father in the skyI burn him and spread his ashes on the ground.He loved birds yet did not feed them crumbs—just caught them in the color of their being.He would watch the mower plow the field,watch the hand fill the feeders with seedfeeling the tranquility of the man-made ponddrift…
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We Grown Now: A Poetic Ode to Childhood’s Fragile Beauty
MOVIE INFO: In 1992 Chicago, as Michael Jordan solidifies himself as a champion, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond…
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Lines Written After My 69th Birthday
I don’t get the feminine luxury of being twenty-five again every birthday past fifty.For a year I must live with the snide joke that my actual age is a congress of crows position illustrated in the karma sutra (page 69).Biologically I feel ten years older. Facially I look fifteen years younger. Every year there will…
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Living in Holy Terror
I thank lifeby livingby praying in stitches in the midst of evergreensaggravates- water This crippled world my every payer of me— of you
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The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan Shines in a Poetic Journey of Redemption and Nature’s Embrace”
MOVIE INFO: Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the wild Orkney Islands after more than a decade away. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her childhood merge with the more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery. REVIEW: In the windswept embrace…
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My Old Ass: Getting to Being a Wise Wise Ass
MOVIE INFO: In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). But when Elliott’s “old ass” starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn’t do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what’s…
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Joker: Folie à Deux – A Chaotic Musical Ride with Phoenix and Gaga’s Twisted Duet”
MOVIE INFO: Joker: Folie à Deux” finds Arthur Fleck institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that’s always been inside him. REVIEW: Alright, let’s dive into the madcap world of “Joker: Folie à Deux,”…
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Megalopolis: Coppola’s Ambitious Homage to Cinematic Giants Falters Amidst Grand Visions”
MOVIE INFO: MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who remains committed to a regressive status quo,…
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Babes: A Buddy Comedy on Giving Birth and Raising Babies
MOVIE INFO: BABES follows inseparable childhood friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in different phases of adulthood. When carefree an single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge. BABES delves into the complexities…
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The Wild Robot: A Lyrical Odyssey of Metal and Nature.
MOVIE INFO: The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot–ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. REVIEW: In “The Wild…
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Rez Ball: A Heartfelt Journey Through Navajo Basketball Dreams”
MOVIE INFO: In the heart of Chuska, New Mexico, the Chuska Warriors, a high school basketball team rich in Native American heritage, face their greatest challenge. After the loss of their star player, the team must unite like never before to keep their dreams of a state championship alive. This is more than just a…
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My First Film: A Bold Exploration of Artistic Vulnerability
MOVIE INFO: Nearly 15 years later, Vita (Odessa Young), recounts making her first feature — a semi-autobiographical film about a young woman who gets pregnant and decides to leave home. Being an enthusiastic but inexperienced filmmaker the shoot is chaotic, and her ego-tripping methods destroy the production. As her “first film” falls apart, director Zia…
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Just So Simple
It’s simple- how to live, that is:live and die each day. Strive to live each morningas if it was the first:pull the colors around you to something that lives beyond the eyes. Treat the world not as Adam:something to be touched, named, collected, defined—but as Eve:the sun as an ingenue something young, innocent not to…
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His Three Daughters: Heartfelt Exploration of Family and Grief
MOVIE INFO: From writer-director Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days. Katie (Carrie Coon) is a controlling Brooklyn mother dealing with a wayward teenage daughter; free-spirited Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) is…
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Baptism on a Sunday Race Day in Daytona
It wasn’t a river just a pool,more of a hotub,set off from the sanctuary—and when I was eased into the waterI didn’t see God in the streams above.And I didn’t see her lost in the thunder of the racetrack just beyond the church. She was beyondmy line of sight,soaking up congratulations from the congregation.The pastor…
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Remnants of Hurricane Debby Passing Through My Tennessee Home
I am married to this earth, this field, this silence,even as the ocean offers itself.I walk it with my dog on his leash pulling restlessly ahead,biting at the frenzy scent trail he knows exists in the air.The woods beyond are gray.So is the sky. I hear— the echo of a trickling brook. My dog, inhales—…
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“I Saw the TV Glow”: A Journey Through the Static
MOVIE INFO: Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. REVIEW: In Jane Schoenbrun’s latest…
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Transformers One: A Fresh Start for a Beloved Franchise
MOVIE INFO: TRANSFORMERS ONE is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. REVIEW: Transformers One (2024) is a surprising breath of fresh air in a franchise that has often been criticized for its lack of…
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The Boy and the Heron: Miyazaki’s Poetic Farewell
MOVIE INFO: From the legendary Studio Ghibli and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) comes a new critically-acclaimed fantasy adventure. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a…
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Handling the Undead: A Hauntingly Beautiful Exploration of Life, Death, and Everything In Between”
MOVIE INFO: On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death after a car…
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In a Violent Nature: A Slasher Movie Looking for a Soul
MOVIE INFO: When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it. The undead golem hones in on the group of vacationing teens responsible…
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Boy Kills World: A Frenzied Ballet of Blood and Vengeance
MOVIE INFO: Bill Skarsgård stars as “Boy” who vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless. Driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood video game, Boy trains…
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Speak No Evil: A Masterclass in Psychological Horror
MOVIE INFO: When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare. REVIEW: “Speak No Evil” is a chilling exploration of human vulnerability and the dark corners of…
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: A Riotous Return to the Macabre
MOVIE INFO: Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally…
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Rebel Ridge: Homaging Billy Jack the Right Way
MOVIE INFO: REVIEW: In “Rebel Ridge,” director Jeremy Saulnier delivers a gripping and exhilarating thriller that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats from start to finish. The film stars Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond, a man on a mission to rescue his cousin from the clutches of a corrupt small-town police force. What…
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I Used to Be Funny: Getting to the PTSD behind the Punchline
MOVIE INFO: I Used To Be Funny is a dark dramedy that follows Sam Cowell (Rachel Sennott), an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, as she decides whether or not to join the search for Brooke (Olga Petsa), a missing teenage girl she used to nanny. The story exists between the present,…
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Before and After the Forklift
Before it was lowered over the broken city grid and became my second houseit was a meadow where the grasses grew tall.I watched the top shell of earthbeing moved and hauled away,saw everything leveled to sand, except a thick, distant forest with a thin stream that bled to the city park—and did not shed a…
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Wash
The white light of my bathroom reaches down through the steam,breaks yellow through the shower door.I scrub my skin, try to scratch loose all the sour, stinging memories inside,hope the grime would disappear in the porous mat under my feet.The steam flows like a host of ghosts into the vent fan- leaves behindonly the face…
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I’m getting giddy as the summer fades
I’m getting giddy as the summer fadesinto yellow fall, and the sky father grants me the comfort of storing his favor on my tongue- enough to close my eyes and know that it will last for the coming snow,the clean pure white that will eventually evaporate as one in the hibernating warmth always underneath.
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Dust
The young can not write about dust.They know only it accumulationson floors, shelves, dirty panes.Only the old know its subtle contours,the futility that comes with just moving it around.They know that the sun and stars are dust,schools of ash that follow all life’s currents andthat blossom the new fields under Grandfather Mountain.They bend with the…
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Kinds of Kindness: More 50 Shades of Unkindness
MOVIE INFO: KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who…
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The Well-Trained Palomino
Again, today,the cowboy will closehis eyes and listen to the hoovesof wild horses all around himknowing that his well-trained palomino will take him homelike a loverwho knowswhat his lust wants— knows the way to him,through the black covers of that dark room—even as the returningcreates and then destroys the greening prairie, the chambray wind.
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Death Milad
As I get older I don’t dread death coming closer. It is closer. It will come as a newborn:seeding so long in me, that I would chide it for taking its time. I will not scream when it head comes out my body.I won’t even be amused by such a Hollywood trick.And when its held…
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Afraid: A.I. Horror That Fulfills its Coding.
MOVIE INFO: In AFRAID, Curtis (John Cho) and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new home device: a digital family assistant called AIA. Taking smart home to the next level, once the unit and all its sensors and cameras are installed in their home, AIA seems able to do it all. She learns…
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Wildcat: Not Seeing the True Reflection of Flannery O’Connor through her Work
MOVIE INFO: Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In…
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The Supremes at Earls All You Can Eat: A Good Buffet of Black Period Drama Cliches
MOVIE INFO: THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT follows a trio of best friends (Uzo Aduba, Aunjanue Ellis, Sanaa Lathan) known as “The Supremes” who, for decades, has weathered life’s storms together through marriage and children, happiness and blues. Now, as heartbreak and illness stir up the past and threaten to destroy their friendship, Odette, Barbara…
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The Bikeriders: From Rebel Without Causes to Hell Angels
MOVIE INFO: THE BIKERIDERS captures a rebellious time in America when the culture and people were changing. After a chance encounter at a local bar, strong-willed Kathy (Jodie Comer) is inextricably drawn to Benny (Austin Butler), the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals led by the enigmatic Johnny (Tom Hardy). Much like the…
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Jackpot: Awkwafina and John Cena Fun Ku You.
MOVIE INFO: In the near future, a ‘Grand Lottery’ has been newly established in California — the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot. When Katie Kim (Awkwafina) moves to Los Angeles, she mistakenly finds herself with the winning ticket. Desperate to survive the hordes of jackpot hunters, she…
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Alien: Romulus: A Greatest Hits Version That Won’t Make You Scream
MOVIE INFO: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. REVIEW: Alien: Romulus doesn’t really try to recreate the series. It’s content to recycle the greatest hits. It’s filler. The original 1979 masterpiece has…
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It Ends With Us: It Never Should Have Started With Them.
MOVIE INFO: IT ENDS WITH US, the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen, tells the story of Lily Bloom, a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and chase a lifelong dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid…
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Exhuma: Exhuming All the Layers of Korean Horror
MOVIE INFO: When a renowned shaman (KIM Go-Eun) and her protégé (Lee Do-hyun) are hired by a wealthy, enigmatic family, they begin investigating the cause of a disturbing supernatural illness that affects only the first-born children of each generation. With the help of a knowledgeable mortician (YOO Hai-jin) and the country’s most revered geomancer (CHOI…
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Gentrification
After forty years the brownstones still seemed the same exceptfor the newer cars and the peoplein fashionable clothes walkinggolden dogs in chic comfort vests,all living in houses he couldn’t afford.He couldn’t believe he grew up herewhen the streets were livelywith black live matterand Gerald every summer out there with his rollerpainting fatsfix’s store front red.…
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My Thalassophobia
I play with the sand, crush it to a globe ofsun dried golden particles,until the thing in me that is the ocean calls to release it to the tideso full of the incessant sorrow upon sorrow of other’s tearsforced daily to kiss the shore-its roar constantly reminding me-the ocean hates the land-the ocean does not…
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Trap: Watch Out, It’s a Parent Trap!
MOVIE INFO: A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event REVIEW: I suspect every kid has suspected, at one point, their dad might be a serial killer. The more he loved you, the more you thought he wanted to kill you. …
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Assembling the Crib
He lacked the skill to make it true, the crib, so he assembled it from a wordless diagram,an ark of 5 panels, 32 screws and bolts, 3 tools-tightening it just enough, until the memory of its creation fixed solid in his soul, well past the 1000 days of the child dreaming in it, the 30…
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Lousy Carter: Blackboard Bungle
MOVIE INFO: In LOUSY CARTER, David Krumholtz (OPPENHEIMER) stars as a ne’er-do-well literature professor adrift on a soulless college campus who learns he only has six months to live. With the clock ticking, will he change his ways? Probably not. REVIEW: Lousy Carter is a comedy with a cruel hum- a feel bad satire. It…
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Femme: Bad Boy, Good-Bad Boy-Girl
MOVIE INFO: With his performances as Aphrodite Banks, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Candyman) has a place among London’s celebrated drag artists. One night after a show, he steps out to get some cigarettes and is brutally attacked by a man (George MacKay, 1917), out with a gang of his friends. Although Jules is able to recover…
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A Hole in the Bucket
My mother was always a better singer than she was a cook. She may have burnt a lot of things but never missed a note, especially when Harry Belafonte came on the transistor kitchen radio-a voice so pure it made her cry with joy.“There’s a hole in the bucket dear Liza, dear Liza,” he sang…
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Wicked Little Letters: Primly, Properly, Profane
MOVIE INFO: A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents…
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Deadpool and Wolverine: Fighting Against and To the Metaverse
MOVIE INFO: Deadpool’s peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority recruits him to help safeguard the multiverse. He soon unites with his would-be pal, Wolverine, to complete the mission and save his world from an existential threat. REVIEW: Deadpool and Wolverine works nicely when the Merch with the Mouth (Ryan Reynolds as…
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The Pond
The pond was a quarry first, a blast furnace to the colonies where trains ran across its field.“Iron Ore Bed” map points called it.It was left to the rain when it dried up.When his parents bought the land twenty- five years before he was born, the field was overgrown and the pond was weedy and…
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Living the Half Life
The drought has made July linger. The air smells of sewer booty, sweetgum, sassafras, fescue, concrete and asphalt. On this long summer day when the light and heat decide to linger— parents let their children play well into the night on the community’s green. Their laughter and the croaking of frogs in the rention pond,…
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An Almost Practical Man
I don’t know if I am a practical person. I don’t obsess over the uses of a watch.It’s enough that it tick and the hands move forward, even if I don’t.When my dog paces in front of the door I know I must walk him. When he paws my lap, I must feed him. He…
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Getting Gentler
I’m gentle with the spaces I know and walk through. Every door knobs has fingerprints. The dust and air is full of ghosts,I make them free not by removing them but tidying them up into their own wandering space,letting them tell their stories so I can joyouslytell mine in the right place, time and words.…
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Extinction
Gray wolves howl invisible on the granite shorelinewaiting for the sea’s answer-standing tall on the headland,against a wind that allows no trees,signatures the stones with ageless storms—howling to know why this once lush placewhere endless fields of poppy intertwined with pineis now defaced with crops of suburban homes.Above, a falcon startled from its rocky perch…
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Land of Bad: A Russell Crowe Almost Worth Droning on About
MOVIE INFO: Starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth, a covert Special Forces operation in the South Philippines spirals into a brutal 48-hour battle for survival. When an elite extraction team is ambushed deep in enemy territory, rookie officer Kinney (Hemsworth) is left outnumbered but determined to leave no man behind. With an air strike closing…
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Young Woman and the Sea: Swimming through Rough and Familiar Waters
MOVIE INFO: Daisy Ridley stars as the accomplished swimmer who was born to immigrant parents in New York City in 1905. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the…
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Love Lies Bleeding: K Stew Finds Crazy Love
MOVIE INFO: Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family. REVIEW: I like it when Kristen Stewart’s acting…
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Twisters: Getting Past the Past
MOVIE INFO: Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the…
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On Wonder
When I look at the sky its blueness mixes and cycles with thunder, lightning and rain.I notice, the vulture, content to feast on leftovers of once beautiful things, fly with the same majesty of the hawk.At night, I see the stars burn bright and smell the rain’s petrichor snake off the worn sides of Racoon…
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The Cleansing Cycle
i like to cling to the grimethe small grit of my father’s ashesunderneath my fingernails, the part of him that refused to fall to the rocks in the scatteringmy mother’s scented oil in her hair,her burning fat seasoning in the skilletstinging my nostrils and eyes leaving me seeing smelling less than my faultering earshis ash…
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The Long Game : Raising the Game for Minority Equality
MOVIE INFO: In 1956, JB Peña and his wife moved to the small town of Del Rio, TX, partly for a job as a school superintendent, but mostly to fulfill JB’s dream of joining the prestigious, all-white Del Rio Country Club. So when JB is rejected on the basis of his skin color, he is…
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Etheria Film Night 2024 on Shudder: 9 Horror Shorts by Women Directors
MOVIE INFO: The 2024 edition of world’s best showcase of new horror, sci-fi, and fantasy directed by women is here! Enjoy these joyously bizarre tales of terror, comedy, and surreal pizza gods. Films directed by Jillian Corsie, Sarah Wisner, Sean Temple, Annie Girard, Diana Wright, Faye Jackson, Sofie Somoroff, Talia Shea Levin, Grace Rex, Kelsey…
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Scrambled: A Sharp Tongue, Soft Belly Fertility Comedy
MOVIE INFO: Quintessential eternal bridesmaid Nellie Robinson (Leah McKendrick) constantly finds herself between weddings, baby showers, and bad dates. When she begins to feel like the clock is ticking and is faced with bleak romantic prospects, Nellie decides to freeze her eggs — setting her on an empowering journey to a brave new world where…
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The Neon Highway: Traveling the Road of Broken Dreams on the Old Country Road
MOVIE INFO: When singer-songwriter Wayne meets washed-up country music legend Claude, the two head back to Nashville for a second chance. REVIEW: Beau Bridges wants to upstage the success of old brother Jeff’s Oscar winning success from Crazy Heart, where he played a fading country music star trying to make a comeback. Beau plays the…
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Arcadian: The Kids Get All the Breaks
MOVIE INFO: In a near future, life on Earth has been decimated. Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his twin teenage sons, Thomas (Jaeden Martell) and Joseph (Maxwell Jenkins), have been living a half-life — tranquility by day and torment by night. When the sun sets, ferocious creatures of the night awaken and consume all living souls…
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Fly Me to the Moon: Faking It Until You Make It.
MOVIE INFO: Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon is a sharp, stylish romantic comedy set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole…
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The Monk and the Gun: A Political Fable of Knowing Shangra-La
MOVIE INFO: An American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again. REVIEW: The Monk and the Gun is a Buddhist comedy about knowing and doing the right thing in the…
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Lullaby of Mother and New Born Child Abandoned in the Night
The Hudson sleepsand the clouds sweep over the moon. I promise little dearwith this small tear I will always love you.Sleep, sleep, sleeppeace, peace, peacethe promise I grant you. This song is the factthat your star remains intactin my heart, steady and true.The river’s lull,the moons’s full glowwill always pull us through.The path will be…
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The Fruits of My Labors
I hate mowing the lawn,hate the way it sends chinch bugsflying to the stars after the rain.In my dreams, however, I have lots of land,and delight in sculpting neat parallel rowswith my tractor- over and over, on and on,aerating the start of warrens and burrows for rabbits and woodchucks to finish their tunnels, for deer…
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Paying the Killers
My wife hears the weed man outside spraying the lawn.The next day it’s the pest control guy doing the foundation.He doesn’t come into the house to spray each room anymore. Just doing the outside is enough to keep the bugs away,says the pamphlet he leaves at the top of the steps.My wife comes from the…
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Back to Black: Sid and Nancy Redux
MOVIE INFO: The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black. Told from Amy’s perspective and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film follows the remarkable woman behind the phenomenon and the tumultuous relationship at the center of one of the most legendary…
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Invitatory
The birds sing of hungerthrough the pillars of lights that render the sky into beingthe great crease of You stumblingthrough onto my bedclotheskindling the room once morewith the face of peace found-outsatiating my starvation with the lamb’s diminutive thorna whole world waiting for Your Yes Author’s note: I usually start my mornings in prayer, asking…
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Ready!
The pain is gone and I am ready to write about everything beyond the fear,ready to bite into the muscle and bone of the world,to put away the dagger phrase,all the losses of my life,ready to live in hope’s recesses.I am poet enough to make you taste this hidden fruit,see beyond all the sutured sunsets…
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This Old House Knows Me Well
This old house painted in faded pride knows me well. I did not learn to walk here,but I did learn to leap- and do it mightily.The old dishes have been broken or thrown away,replaced by new ones with new owners. The taps stiff with old age and rust, surely have been replaced.The comfortable chairs, the…
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The Imaginary: The Case for Child Imagination for Life
MOVIE INFO: Rudger is a boy no one can see, imagined by Amanda to share her thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger, suddenly alone, arrives at The Town of Imaginaries, where forgotten Imaginaries live and find work, he faces a mysterious threat. REVIEW: Imaginary friends are having a renaissance. If , released a few months …
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Despicable Me 4: Minions All The Way
MOVIE INFO: In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4. Following the 2022 summer blockbuster phenomenon of Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, which earned almost $1 billion worldwide, the biggest global animated…
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This Closeness: Fighting Through the Scrim of Life
MOVIE INFO: Tensions rise when a couple stays at the home of a reclusive host, with the three entering an intimate battle to gain and regain territory. REVIEW: I was expecting This Closeness, a film about a couple who rent an Airbnb apartment they have to share with the current shy and nerdy tenant for…
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Space Cadet: NASA Certified Legally Blonde
MOVIE INFO: Rex, a Florida party girl, turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumés, but don’t have her smarts, heart, and moxie. REVIEW: The pitch for Space Cadet must have mentioned that it was Legally…
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F: Getting Old With Style
MOVIE INFO: Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.…
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Sometimes I Think About Dying: Getting Around to Feels
MOVIE INFO: Lost on the dreary Oregon coast, Fran finds solace in her cubicle, listening to the constant hum of officemates and occasionally daydreaming to pass the time. She is ghosting through life, unable to pop her bubble of isolation, when a friendly new coworker, Robert, persistently tries to connect with her. Though it goes…
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Marmalade: Bonnie and Clyde with a Twist
MOVIE INFO: MARMALADE is an edge-of-the-seat crime-tinged romance tale. Recently incarcerated Baron (Joe Keery) strikes up a friendship with cellmate Otis (Aldis Hodge), a man with a well-versed history of prison breaks. As the pair hatch an escape plan together, Baron recalls the story of how he met Marmalade (Camila Morrone), the love of his…
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Bleeding Love: Real Life Father and Daughter Dealing with Their Cinematic Story
MOVIE INFO: After a drastic incident in her life, a young woman (Clara McGregor) embarks on an impromptu road trip with her estranged father (Ewan McGregor). En route to their destination of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the two are forced to confront the issues of their past that have led to their frail relationship, while…
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Problemista: She’s a Real Problem.
MOVIE INFO: Alejandro (Julio Torres) is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast (Tilda Swinton) becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.…
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A Quiet Place: Day One: A Family Needs a Pet to Work
MOVIE INFO: Experience the day the world went quiet. REVIEW: Every family needs a pet to make it seem complete. In A Quiet Place Day One, a movie where silence is both golden and a survival necessity, that animal can only be a cat, the only nonhuman creature that won’t scream or move a muscle…