The Light 

“Verity is a mystery movie” is a statement that is technically correct, but does not do justice to the film.  It is just as much style as it is substance, if not more so.  It is no coincidence that the script feels similar to a mystery book, considering it is based on Colleen Hoover’s 2018 acclaimed novel.  It is just as sensual as it is dark.  But what’s more interesting than the genre or style that the film takes is its approach to grief.  Specifically, not the grief of pure loss, but of loss by addition. 

Mild spoilers for the first half of the film ahead.

A.K.A. White Men Being Gross

Finishing Tiger King on Netflix can feel like a letdown. What do you watch for the rest of the quarantine? How do you find more things to binge? What about your needs? Other documentaries feel so tame after the dumpster fire flamboyance of Tiger King. There seems to be no way to capture that lightning in a bottle again. Fret not: here are three movies to satisfy your deepest, darkest desires for white men of questionable moral character.

The premise of the 2015 documentary Finders Keepers should be enough to draw in anyone who can’t get enough hillbilly melodrama. In the deep south in the early 2000s, one man bought a smoker grill at auction, took it home, and discovered it contained a human foot. The owner of said foot wanted it back, and a lengthy legal battle ensued.