Is it better to let your feelings be known despite the uncertainty it brings, or to keep quiet & suffer in silence? Featuring the last on-screen performance of the great actor, Bernardo Bernardo, To Love And Not Be Loved is a story of unrequited feelings, duty, and the willingness to set someone free as seen through the lens of an old man & his "nephew".
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
In this remake of the 1993 film of the same name, The Wedding Banquet follows the life of two queer couples as they struggle with life-changing decisions.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is exactly as the title describes, yet unexpectedly so. It's like the Matrix, but with OCD and hallucinogens, plus a heart’s dose of mother-daughter intergenerational intercultural growing pains. Review and cast.
Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.
The power of a talented female director like Patty Jenkins and an overall diverse cast is what makes this film worth watching for me.
A masterful portrayal of a long-forgotten story that needs to be told.
