Movie Reviews and Other Writings

His House is about a pair of Sudanese refugees, Bol and Rial. They survived a horrible trek across the country and a disaster at sea in which they lose their daughter. Bol and Rial make it to England to be granted temporary asylum and given a place to stay. Though, the house they are given is haunted by the ghosts and demons they brought with them. The film stars Sope Dirisu, Wonmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba, Javier Botet, and Matt Smith. The film is written and directed

On the Rocks is about a writer, Laura, who is in a rut creatively. She has a second full time job as a mother to two girls and her husband, Dean, is often away on business. After a weird interaction with Dean, Laura seeks help from close friends and family to suss out if Dean may be having an affair. Yet, there's only one person who would know for sure and that's her philandering father, Felix. Laura and Felix get lost in their own narrative as they chase down leads in an eff

Bad Hair is a film about a young woman, Anna, who has been trying to break into hosting on an MTV like network. Though, because she is a Black woman who wears her hair naturally, she's finding many roadblocks along the way. She takes the advice of her new boss and goes to the salon to get a hair weave sewn in. Anna finds that people are more interested in her and her ideas with her new hairdo, but something's wrong. The hair begins to take over and thirst for blood. The film

Rebecca is an adaptation of the acclaimed novel of the same name by Daphne Du Maurier. It is about a young woman who is unnamed until she marries, "above her station," to Max de Winter. As the new Mrs. de Winter, the narrator is brought back to the ancestral home, Manderlay, which is figuratively haunted by the former Mrs. de Winter, the titular Rebecca. As Mrs. de Winter uncovers the secrets of Rebecca's mysterious death, she's driven mad by the calculating former servant of

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a courtroom drama about eight men accused of starting the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. Though the evidence is clearly in the men's favor, it's obvious that the political establishment has a desired result and will work the system in order to get that result. The film stars Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Rylance, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,

Evil Eye is a story told between phone calls. Usha lives in Dehli and calls her daughter Pallavi everyday, mostly with dating advice. One day Pallavi stumbles into a relationship all on her own, but Usha has a bad feeling. She begins to spiral convinced this man may be the reincarnated spirit of the horrifically abusive man she dated before meeting Pallavi's father. The film stars Sarita Choudhury, Sunita Mani, Bernard White, Omar Maskati, Anjali Bhimani, Rachel Cora Wood, an

Content warning: This film includes multiple depictions of suicide. Nocturne is about a prestigious performing arts high school at which a pair of fraternal twins attend. Juliet, the ambitious, but more anxious of the two is having trouble getting noticed. Her sister, Vivian, has the friends, the boyfriend, the spot at Juilliard, and because of the top student Moira's, suicide, a spotlight performance at the senior showcase. Yet, when Juliet discovers Moira's notebook and pla

Unpregnant is about two teenagers on a road trip... so that one of them can get an abortion. Veronica and Bailey used to be best friends, but a riff in high school drove them apart. Now, Bailey is Veronica's last hope to get from their home in Missouri, which is a state that doesn't allow for women under eighteen to get an abortion without a parents consent, to Albuquerque, which is the closest city that will allow the procedure to take place. Of course it wouldn't be a road

Black Box is about Nolan, a man who is recovering from a traumatic brain injury. A car accident cost him his wife and his memories of her, but as he tries to piece his memories back together he gets persistent messages from a neuroscientist who claims she can do what no one else can. Her radical therapy has some very unexpected results. The film stars Mamoudou Athie, Phylcia Rashad, Amanda Christine, Tosin Morohunfola, Charmain Bingwa, and Donal Elise Watkins. It is directed

The Lie is a film about a divorced couple who coparent their teenage daughter. As Jay drives his daughter, Kayla, to a weekend retreat for her dance school, they find Kayla's friend Britney waiting at a bus stop. They drive for a while and then have to stop so Britney can relieve herself. That's when everything goes wrong and Jay has to enlist his ex-wife Rebecca to cover up what Kayla did. The film stars Peter Sarsgaard, Mireille Enos, Joey King, Cas Anvar, Patti Kim, Nichol