Not only does this species of art do nothing for me personally, virtually everything about it irritates me despite it technically being well made.

The solid kernel of an idea and eerie, perpetually “off” atmosphere–both put to better use in the short film that preceded the feature–are infuriatingly squandered by:

A protagonist who's little more than a bland, passive, featureless audience surrogate;

A shallow, plodding, narcoleptic-inducing execution that sacrifices characterization and rich storytelling for a whisper thin plot that over…

I Love Boosters is an overstuffed, intensely bonkers cornucopia of unbridled creativity, opulent visuals, and high-key hijinks. It's outrageously audacious - and I mean that with the utmost praise possible!

Similar to Sorry to Bother You, writer-auteur-virtuoso Boots Riley delivers an afrofuturistic anti-capitalist critique centered on revolutionary collective action. This time, said messenging is overtly subsumed within the maxed-extraness of a genre-flouting socialist-surrealist sci-fi crime comedy satire.

Seriously, the way that this was unapologetically aligned with radical class consciousness ambitions…

Hell isn't fire and brimstone. Hell is being trapped for eternity with people you resent, with people who see through every comforting lie you've ever told yourself.

Hell is other people.

Jacqueline Audry's cinematic adaptation of Sartre's No Exit stageplay thrives when it embraces the suffocating psychological warfare at the heart of the source material.

The film's drama centers on three characters who are all insufferable in their own way! Estelle - a vain, intensely selfish Parisian socialite. Inez -…

I'm so thankful that I revisited this!

Sooooo 3 years ago, I first watched Carmen Comes Home and thought it was “ok” but unimpressive, despite it starring GOAT-tier performer Hideko Takamine, and despite it being helmed by a personal Top 4 director in Keisuke Kinoshita (Twenty-Four Eyes, Immortal Love).

I was so underwhelmed by the original that I was “turned off” and didn't really give this sequel a chance due to bias. Didn't even finish it.

Welp, with a full,…

If the distinctly Black inspiration behind Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You, Jordan Peele's Get Out, and Malcolm D. Lee's Undercover Brother had a passionate tryst and made a cinematic lovechild. 🤌🏿🙌🏿✨

They Cloned Tyrone blesses us with an ideal blend of Black humor, Black ingenuity, Black existentialism (defined within the oppressive confines of white hegemony), and conscious Black "drapetomania."

Unapologetically Black and FUBU as fuck. Definitely Tupac's "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z." type energy insofar as there being ample nuances,…