Using lush, dream-like imagery, filmmaker Lily McCauley inhabits and reclaims the transfeminine villain from Silence of the Lambs, transforming the harmful stereotype into a celebration of “transexual monstrosity.”
Alongside A Drowning Man, I Signed The Petition, 3 Logical Exits, and A World Not Ours, A Man Returned continues to paint a realistic portrait of the Refugee Crisis that eschews the Western gaze and stereotype. These are real portraits painted by a director with lived experience, cultural connection and an amazing eye for visuals.
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.
'Thirteen Lives' gives a dramatic adaptation of a humanitarian triumph that captured the global imagination.
Kate Winslet and Saorise Ronan deliver stellar performances in a film that doesn't live up to its potential.
Airplane! (1980) is a fun spoof comedy with lots of laughs, right? I watched this film for the first time the other night. I loved it. Then came the racist jokes.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
