Van der Laan & Woe: NG 

This film is a splendid mix of mediums, but its strength lies in its simplicity and beautiful message of closeness.

Based on a true story, when his beloved dog goes missing, the owner embarks on an incredible search with his parents to find him.

An artistic approach to the impact of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”.

It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.

Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) are a delight to watch evolve, sometimes devolve, then evolve again.

It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!