Directed by Barry Jenkins If Beale Street Could Talk certainly wears its heart on its sleeve. Barry Jenkins' follow up to the Oscar-winning Moonlight seems to pick up where that one left off, opening on two characters as if we've known them our whole lives. They are Tish (Kiki Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James), childhood friends … Continue reading If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
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Life (1999)
Directed by Ted Demme Life is one of those movies I hadn’t seen since I was a kid and which apparently stuck with me. As an adult there’s nothing so striking about it, at least compared to what else we’ve all seen in movies. It’s ostensibly a comedy, at least it feels like it, and Lawrence … Continue reading Life (1999)
Life (2017)
Directed by Daniel Espinosa You've seen this movie before, even if you haven't seen it. Life is a hybrid between two movies, Alien (1979) and Gravity (2013). There are similarities to other recent space station in crisis movies as well, like Alien: Covenant and The Cloverfield Paradox. When we meet the six person crew sent to intercept a probe sent to … Continue reading Life (2017)
I Draw on My Wall 