Wild Style (1983)
A drama with some documentary-worthy concert performances, Wild Style, which is a slang term for the jittery lettering of graffiti, is a seminal hip-hop film, covering some of the origins of the art form in the...
Category: Drama
Bombshell (2019)
Bombshell is a somewhat loose recounting of the toxic, cultish, and highly sexist atmosphere that permeated Fox News under the tenure of their CEO, Roger Ailes. Most of the events that take place in...
The Lighthouse (2019)
The premise of The Lighthouse is relatively simple: two men isolated indefinitely at a rocky island lighthouse some distance from the coast of New England go mad over time. If you really want to simplify...
Joker (2019)
Joker is a gritty, grimy, and nihilistic R-rated origin story on the classic “Batman” villain, directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Set in a crime-ridden Gotham City sometime...
Hustlers (2019)
Hustlers is a somewhat different take on the traditional crime film, ostensibly exploitative and glossy on the surface, but with some surprising themes to ponder underneath. This one is inspired by the real-life story,...
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Jillian Bell stars as Brittany Forgler, a broke and down-on-her-luck woman in her late 20s who moved from Philadelphia to New York to pursue a career that didn’t quite pan out. Her quest for...
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
Zack Gottsagen is a young man with Down syndrome (also named Zak, no ‘c’) who is persistently trying to escape from his care facility in order to go meet his idol, a professional wrestler...
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film (if you count the who volumes of Kill Bill as one entity), Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (called OUATIH from here on out), is both different than anything he’s done before...
Fast Color (2018)
Set sometime in a future in which natural resources like water have become scarce. Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Ruth, a recovering drug addict on the run due to the fact that she just might be...
The Professor (2018)
Johnny Depp stars as an English professor for a prestigious New England college named Richard Brown who learns he has late-stage lung cancer and probably only six months to live without treatment, which he...