Kristen Stewart is a polarizing actress. It took me a while to come around on her. Her brooding personality and the pained expression of someone who seemed to want to be anywhere else on the planet, set her off on the wrong foot with movie fans uninvested in choosing sides between Team Edward and Team…
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Beauty & the Beast: Disney’s Timeless Tale
Piggybacking off the success of recent live action adaptations to its animated library, Disney unveiled its modern retelling of the tale as old as time to audiences this weekend. Based on the box office reports, a lot of audiences at that. And while the Twitter-verse and various blog sites continue to hem and haw over…
Logan: Once More With Feeling
About ten minutes before my screening of Logan, 20th Century Fox’s latest venture into the X-Verse, a family of four wandered in, popcorn and sodas in hand. Mom, Dad, two kids. Two very young kids. Like, ten-ish at best. I don’t judge. How you parent your kids is on you. Maybe these people did the…
Get Out: It’s Black And White
About eight months ago, I was riding in a car with a friend. Jason, we’ll call him. Jason is not a close friend. We see each other a couple of times a year, on Facebook occasionally, but we do not converse regularly. Jason is Black. After exchanging the normal pleasantries, I took the conversation to…
Split: M. Night Shyamalan Returns To Form
Fear is suffocating. To wake up, dazed and unknowing, in a dank, windowless, unfamiliar room, the only point of recall a heavy mist of inhalant with the sole purpose to get us to this point. As the memory fog begins to lift, and the frightful recollection of the strange man who stole you from your…
La La Land: Here’s to the Fools Who Dream
From the street, a baby grand in the middle of a supper club beckons her; the crescendo of a smooth jazz arrangement filling the night air like a clarion call. She stands and looks at him, mesmerized. I sit in a dark theater and look at her looking at him, mesmerized. What happens in…