The Blues, and Two Contradictory Films That Claim It
Crossroads follows a young guitarist on a journey through the American South in search of blues history and his own voice.

Using only archive footage, Paradigma reveals that the problems we’re facing today are anything but recent. Our economy, the many consequences of climate change, distrust of democracy and even fake news have been around for decades. Paradigma is a cinematic essay showing why we fail as a collective to fundamentally tackle all of these challenges, and appear to be stuck in a loop.
Crossroads follows a young guitarist on a journey through the American South in search of blues history and his own voice.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
Omaha reminds us of what it can feel like to look at old family photographs. You sit with the bittersweetness, allowing it to wash over you; not drowning in it, but certainly affected by it.
Gay representation is out there, but to portray a character who's gay as a big, happy brute is a rare treat.
At first glance, “The Good Liar” is a respectable piece of fiction, starring Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren. But underneath everything, the film expertly hones the unpredictability of deceit.
Neo Sora left a realistic and yet hopeful notion for the near future and the now.