Whitesnake: Live... In the Still of the Night captures the band at the Hammersmith Apollo in London in 2004 with David Coverdale in the center and a strong accompaniment of Doug Aldrich, Reb Beach, Marco Mendoza, Timothy Drury and Tommy Aldridge. Classic songs like “Still of the Night”, “Here I Go Again” and “Is This Love” are delivered with power, bluesy weight and audience contact. The film has become a strong document from a time before Coverdale's later voice problems became increasingly apparent and changed his live performances.
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, let us take a look at six films about transgender children grappling with their identity in a heteronormative world that despises their kind and tries its best to invalidate their feelings.
The newest in a long line of Cinderella adaptations, Amazon’s Cinderella (2021) prizes girlbossification above the very story it tries to adapt.
In 'Maestro,' we're left with an impression but not with an understanding of the main character.
In this short film, writer/director Nikita Hattangady focuses on Jai, a starving artist rooted in the latter category. Though unhoused, he works hard.
As an extremely avid fan of DC’s animation, I’ve become familiar with the way the studio uses Batman as a bit of a Trojan Horse to introduce some of their lesser known characters.
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.
