Talking Back: ‘Da 5 Bloods’
Right from the start, as the film opens with historical clips of American flashpoints, Spike Lee’s new film Da 5 …
Category Archives: Musings
How to Build Yourself Anew
New releases for May 8: How to Build a Girl / CRSHD / Clementine It’s time to step into the …
Standing with ‘The Infiltrators’
Films occasionally have the power to sneak up on viewers, to instigate a debate, challenging ethics, morality, and something fundamentally …
Looking ‘To The Stars,’ Searching…
Filmmakers have been gazing up at the sky for almost as long as we’ve had cameras, capturing glimpses at the …
The Empress Has No Clothes: ‘Selah and the Spades’
Prep school dramas, whether in novels or films, are generally the domain of privileged white students (with their token minority …
‘The Lost Husband’ – Lost But Easily Found
This is supposed to be a review of the new release The Lost Husband from writer-director Vicky Wright, based on …
Lost Mothers Rise Up in ‘The Other Lamb’
Shepherd (Michiel Huisman) literally herds his own flock in Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska’s new film The Other Lamb (from screenwriter …
Michaela Watkins: Mother-Sister-Woman
From Casual to The Way Back (but better in reverse) Pre-CoronaVirus Binge cycle with my wife began a few weeks …
Trauma is Hard to ‘Swallow,’ But Redemption Awaits in ‘Legion’
Critical analysis requires time and a healthy degree of perspective. Our current situation provides us with both, which creates a …
What Does ‘The Night Clerk’ Represent?
As both a film critic and the film programmer for the Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival in Cincinnati, the last couple …
