The first feature film of Melina Matsoukas, best known for directing music videos for Beyoncé and Rihanna, Queen and Slim stars Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith as a couple forced to go on the run after an encounter with a racist cop. The film e...

Fleabag is adapted from genius Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s award-winning one-woman play of the same name. The titular, fourth-wall-breaking Fleabag, played by Waller-Bridge, is an electrifying personality—horny, cheeky, depressed—who is struggling to run...

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The monumental conclusion to Kevin Feige’s decade-long development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has led to this—Avengers: Endgame, which has the surviving superheroes reeling after Thanos’ (Josh Brolin) half-the-universe r...

A Single Man is one of my favourite films. It is assured, exquisitely beautiful, and sad. It was an astounding debut film for director Tom Ford, who is better known for having been the stylish, sharp, and provocative creative director of Gucci before...

A well-told tale played to perfection, The Favourite stars Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone in an English courtly comedy-drama. Queen Anne (Colman) is a weak-willed, gout-stricken ruler with a poor grip on matters of state. Her closest con...

Director Alfonso Cuarón returns to his indie roots since 2001’s indelible Y Tu Mamá También with the sublime Roma. Filmed in black-and-white and set in 1970s Mexico, Roma follows the life of a young maid named Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) as she serves th...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Six months, in fact. I recently encouraged someone to continue to hang on to their creative outlet, no matter what life struggles and challenges would threaten to drain them, and I couldn’t be a hypocrite abo...

Ten years, eighteen films, countless heroes—Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of the phenomenon that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Earth’s best fighters and allies team up to take down the genocidal, uber-powerful Thanos (Josh Brolin) who...

Black Panther, Marvel’s record-shattering ode to black excellence and Afro-futurist storytelling, is an eye-opener for Hollywood and global cinema. It stars a fantastic roster of African-American and Black-British actors that includes Chadwick Bosem...

Visionary fantasy auteur Guillermo del Toro presents a genre-bending love story between a mute janitor and a fish-man creature in The Shape of Water. Living in Baltimore during the Cold War, Eliza (Hawkins) is a mute woman working as a cleaner at a s...