The Bleak Reality of “Lost Girls”
A working class mom searches for her daughter.

I Think Bob Is An Alien is a coming-of-age comedy. Blake and Charlotte are best friends, and high school graduation is approaching fast. Instead of focusing on their future they notice a new kid, Bob, moves in next door to Blake. They see Bob acts a little strange- they decide that he MUST be an alien. Blake watches Bob and confronts him about being an alien. She decides that aliens make cool friends.
A working class mom searches for her daughter.
Laggies is a fantastic movie, filled with down-to-earth characters, transcendent themes, and witty comedy
"Driveways" is a nuanced portrait of an Asian American family, touching on themes of loss, growth, and belonging.
Strangers in a crowd, exchanging glances, looking away, continually managing to run into each other then part ways, end up at the same diner, find they've rented the exact same vehicles, and are then made to travel together to learn once more whether they can both find genuine adoration and companionship again. This really does, in so many words, sum up the foundational gist of of this new feature film from writer Seth Reiss ("The Menu") and director Kogonada ("The Acolyte", "After Yang"). Yet, it's all only the set-up for the REAL wonder of everything that happens before, during, and in the aftermath of a magical, meaningful journey.
There’s been a longstanding criticism of sci-fi films about its lack of Black characters. For the past few years, Anthony Mackie has been successfully representing Black masculinity in the otherwise homogenous genre and I am here for it.
What makes the lighting in Casablanca even more impressive is how it reflects the emotional states of the characters without needing explicit dialogue.