Tag: Lena Waithe
Beauty | Review
It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay: Dosunmu Finds Fame is a Heartbreak Hotel in Familiar Melodrama
Destined to be the oddest entry in Andrew Dosunmu’s...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Dosunmu’s Beauty
Originally slated for a 2021 release, the Netflix folks appear to have switched their strategy on Andrew Dosunmu's fifth feature film. A long time...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One
Padding her resumé with a pair of buzzy items in a (late 2016) 20+ minute music video commissioned by Alicia Keys called The Gospel...
Bad Hair | Review
Witches Get Stitches: Simien Retrofits Folklore with Contemporary Subtexts in Horror Satire
Justin Simien recuperates a particular time and place with a jaunty but ultimately...
The Forty-Year-Old Version | Review
What Happens to a Dream Deferred?: Blank Finds the Beauty of Herself in Striking Debut
Writer/director Radha Blank arrives in the wake of an opulent...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section
Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...