Tag: Roxie
Screen Grabs: Delving into the toxic bastions
Love—both endearing and abusive—finds its way into prison, army, and sports in these new movies
Screen Grabs: Tragedies of global market capitalism on display
From Lesotho to Ohio, new films draw a damning through-line. Plus: Oscar nominated shorts
Immersed in Van Gogh—the “experience” and the movies
The hit Immersive Van Gogh exhibit provides satisfying eye candy; search out these biopics for deeper looks
Screen Grabs: A very fine First Nations coming-of-age tale
Plus: A Danish Nazi melodrama, beautifully cutthroat 'Truffle Hunters,' terrible 'Shoplifters of the World'
Screen Grabs: Two Irish dramas confront reverberations of sexual assault
Thrillers 'Rose Plays Julie' and 'The Winter Lake' tackle trauma. Plus: A killer pair of pants takes revenge
Screen Grabs: A fascinating ‘Father,’ an over-bloated ‘Cherry’…
Even for movies, it feels like 2020 is dragging its feet well into 2021. COVID World’s changes in release patterns and delays in awards-giving mean that some films being...
Screen Grabs: Celebrating neglected SF filmmaker Sara Kathryn Arledge
Plus: More women on screen, from Crystal Z Campbell and 'Sophie Jones' to graffiti photos and EDM inequality
Screen Grabs: The marvelous range of Max von Sydow
Plus: Jane Fonda tours 1972 Vietnam, a dog tale from Turkey, mischievous orphans in Afghanistan, more
Screen Grabs: They love Israel—at least ’til Kingdom come
Plus: My Darling Supermarket, Ski Bum, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, and the Mauritanian
Screen Grabs: A fantastical hybrid from Ivory Coast in ‘Night of the Kings,’ more
While the increased demand for streaming content hasn’t greatly diversified the mainstream—Amazon Prime Video just announced a severe curtailing in its documentary acquisitions, a major calamity for nonfiction filmmakers—it...
