Through Beauty, Equality: Lowthorpe Examines Intersections Through Provocative Period Nexus
Sporting material speckled with enough players and perspectives to justify a much longer format, Philippa...
Castles in the Sky: Swale Finds Love During Wartime in Likeable Debut
Although it’s a somewhat simple and ultimately schmaltzy dose of narrative convenience, Jessica...
Misbehavior
Celebrated British television director Philippa Lowthorpe (the first woman to win a BAFTA TV Award for Directing for 2012’s “Call the Midwife,” an award...
A Wrinkle in Time
Director: Ava DuVernay
Writer: Jennifer Lee
Years from now, director Ava DuVernay will continually be referenced for a dizzying amount of incredible firsts...
Truth, Be Told: Hunt Returns to Moral Grey Zone with Courtroom Drama
The only real anomalistic quality to Courtney Hunt’s long awaited sophomore feature The...
The Newton Men: Ross Emancipates History Lesson from Obscurity
At a point in time, a dramatic reenactment of a provocative but overlooked American Civil War...
Premiering as the 'secret screening' at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival shortly before its theatrical premiere, the latest sci-fi extravaganza from the Wachowskis opened...
Space Princess Diaries: Wachowski’s Space Adventure is Intergalactic Hooey
Those craving the intelligent sci-fi that graced their early 1999 sci-fi classic The Matrix are sure...
Why you wanna fly, Blackbird?: Mbatha-Raw Vibrantly Imbues Prince-Blythewood’s Showbiz Melodrama
A systematically underrated director, Gina Prince-Bythewood returns with her third feature film, Beyond the...
Deemed as his career best, Richard Linklater's Boyhood leads all nominations for the 24th Gotham Independent Film Awards with winks in the Best Feature,...
But Your Picture On My Wall: Asante’s Sophomore Feature Revisits Compelling Historical Episode
A decade after her 2004 directorial debut, A Way of Life, director...