"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin The hardest part about watching I Am Not Your Negro, easily 2016's best documentary and most essential viewing, is watching it. More than once, I cringed, winced, looked away, closed my ...
Maybe Watch This: The Founder
There's a family story I've heard at holidays and cookouts since I was a kid. A joke, really. And that's the story that my great grandmother went to high school with Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's. Had she played her cards differently, we might all be in very different circumstances today. Imagine! ...
2016 [in Film]
As with last year, I don't really see the point in building any suspense when it comes to sharing my favorite films. It's not like you've been holding your breath, wondering what I'm going to say. (And if you have, thanks for being such a big fan. And sorry for the lack of ceremony here...) The ...
On Melanie
There's news every other week of another movie legend leaving us; the further we get from those industry-shaping years of the first part of last century, the fewer of them there are still with us. When that news does break, I find myself - like everyone else - surprised and saddened. My next thought ...
2015 [in films]
When you've seen 160 films in the span of 365 days, you'd think it'd be easy to pick your favorites. You've seen enough that the cream should theoretically rise to the top, leaving all the mediocre movies to fade into memory. I suppose when I get down to it, that's true. I can tell you what my ...
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