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February 20, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Nothing but a Man, by Scott Nye

Due to the very nature of the conflict worth exploring, there’s an unfortunate dearth of contemporaneous fiction films made about the Black experience in Jim Crow, pre-Civil Rights Act America. Few white filmmakers wanted to touch it. Fewer Black filmmakers...

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January 23, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Chantal Akerman Masterpieces 1968-1978, by Scott Nye

“I’m not militant, I simply make films that are not colonized, that have not been filtered through the language of men, and that’s a matter of confidence… I’m 27 now, and I have everything to gain… I think I’m making...

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January 3, 2024

Occupied City: McQueen and Country, by Scott Nye

In his historical dramas – Hunger, 12 Years a Slave, and the five films he made under the Small Axe anthology banner – director Steve McQueen has routinely created close ties between the past and the present, between the motivations...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / rudie obias

December 20, 2023

Home Video Hovel: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, by Rudie Obias

Although there are many versions of the Pinocchio story, from the classic Walt Disney animated feature to Roberto Benigni’s 2002 film, there has to be a good reason to make a new one — especially since it’s a story that most...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

December 14, 2023

The Zone of Interest: Distanced Lives, Absent Voices, by Scott Nye

Jonathan Glazer’s fourth film, The Zone of Interest, is almost literally a museum piece. Shot in a house on the grounds of Auschwitz, on the outskirts of the camp, it depicts the domestic life of real-life figure Rudolph Höss, the...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

December 12, 2023

The Taste of Things: Carving and Serving, by Scott Nye

The classic “dinner and a movie” date set-up never quite tracked to me. You either have to eat quite early or catch a later movie, by which time you’re prone to falling asleep, not in the least because you just...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

December 7, 2023

Poor Things: Life Among the Dead, by Scott Nye

Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite, Dogtooth) has never been one for subtlety, though at least he can look to novelist Alasdair Gray for giving him a character named God who creates new life in a young woman. Godwin Baxter...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / rudie obias

December 1, 2023

Home Video Hovel: Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar, by Rudie Obias

After a career making movies that spans more than 60 years (and still going strong), it’s pretty clear why Jackie Chan is a superstar — especially with his films during the mid ‘90s and early 2000s. Movies like Rumble in...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

November 30, 2023

La Syndicaliste: Terror at Home, by Scott Nye

Right from the start, La Syndicaliste sets itself apart from the standard whistleblower arc – in a police dispatch call, a housecleaner reports the woman she works for has been tied to a chair, her stomach carved, and she’s been...

movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tyler smith

November 29, 2023

Lady Ballers: Airball, by Tyler Smith

As a critic, I don’t begrudge a movie having a point of view. I may disagree with it – indeed, I might even condemn it – but I believe that every film deserves its day in court. This should not...

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Home Video Hovel: Nothing but a Man, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Chantal Akerman Masterpieces 1968-1978, by Scott Nye

Occupied City: McQueen and Country, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, by Rudie Obias

The Zone of Interest: Distanced Lives, Absent Voices, by Scott Nye

The Taste of Things: Carving and Serving, by Scott Nye

Poor Things: Life Among the Dead, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar, by Rudie Obias

La Syndicaliste: Terror at Home, by Scott Nye

Lady Ballers: Airball, by Tyler Smith

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