Tag: Jonathan Majors
The Harder They Fall [Video Review]
Zest of the West: Samuels’ Western Soap Opera Long on Style, Short on Substance
In a film which plays as both recuperation and revisionism,...
Gully [Video Review]
Goodbye South Central, Goodbye: Elderkin Grapples with Uneven Urban Soap Opera
If Donald Goines had written YA literature, it might have looked something like Gully,...
Jungleland [Video Review]
In Like a Lion: Winkler Traces Boxer on the Struggle Bus in Familiar Melodrama
If you’re going to San Francisco, there might not be anymore...
Da 5 Bloods | Review
Things Fall Apart: Lee’s New Joint Unearths a Heart of Darkness Alive and Well
“There is no story that is not true,” wrote Chinua Achebe...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #46. Joe Talbot – Last Black Man in San Francisco
Perhaps making the leap from former short filmmaker alumni (2017's American Paradise) to debuting his directorial debut, Sundance are not the only ones to...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #30. Nabil Elderkin – Gully
An American photographer, turned music video director turned filmmaker who found fortune via a peculiar Kanye West encounter, American-Iranian Nabil Elderkin (who was among...
