Snow White, Rewritten in a Minor Key
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.

Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to leave the business and lead a normal life. Elle is hellbent to see that she never has one.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.
Dracula evolved from a person to a monster and then from a monster to a person.
Ian and Barley embark on a quest to find a magical gem to restore their father back to life.
Sweetheart provides a stark example of self-isolation taken to its extreme.
'Ms. Davis’ Close Friend' will make you think about the meaning of death and what it means to be alive, and if there’s really a race to be run with one's inevitable demise.