BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Spike Lee co-writes and directs this comedic drama that, like many of Spike’s films, dips back to the past to comment on the present day. In BlacKkKlansman, based on Ron Stallworth’s memoirs, published in 2014...
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Breakin’ (1984)
Wholly dated by today’s standards, but then, all the more reason to watch. Breakin’ (originally titled in production as Breakdance (which it was still called in foreign markets), then Break Dancin’) is an earnest attempt at a feel-good break-dancing...
Style Wars (1983)
Style Wars is a documentary look at the street art among the youth of New York in the early 1980s, especially in the South Bronx, particularly in graffiti art and break-dancing. The film takes...
Aquaman (2018)
Aquaman follows in the path of Wonder Woman by going back to give an already established character in the DCEU an origin film. It’s not nearly as enjoyable as Wonder Woman though, putting more of its emphasis...
Krush Groove (1985)
Krush Groove resides firmly on my list of guilty pleasures — a film that generates unintentional laughs from its worst moments, but which only makes me love it all the more for it, to the point...
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
Mackenzie Foy stars as Clara, suffering through grief with her father and two siblings during their first holiday without her recently deceased mother, Marie. Clara receives an enigmatic and ornate Christmas gift, the last...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
The Dream Child picks up with Alice, who we were introduced in the fourth installment, The Dream Master, just graduating high school and looking forward to a future after her harrowing experience that ultimately resulted in...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
The film starts off in a sillier mode, where Freddy Krueger’s bones begin to reconstitute themselves after a dog desecrates his burial ground by relieving himself over it (the dog is named “Jason”, in...
Halloween (2018)
Esteemed but sometimes hit-and-miss director David Gordon Green (Joe, Prince Avalanche) takes a turn toward the horror genre with Halloween, a sequel to the 1978 classic slasher film from John Carpenter. Low-budget horror outfit Blumhouse Productions...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Dream Warriors is easily the best of the sequels in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and some lovers of the franchise consider it even better than the original in many ways. It certainly is a...