Fans of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus have been clambering for a cinematic adaptation that isn’t another Victorian era verbatim remake. Bringing the OG gothic science-fiction horror firmly into the 21st century, interwoven with modern anxieties over race relations is The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster. […]
black cinema
Eve’s Bayou (1997) A Lingering, Compelling and Emotional Icon of Modern Black Cinema (Blu-Ray Review)
2021 Blow Out: Giants & Toys, Running Against the Wind, Menace II Society, The Millionaires’ Express (REVIEW)
Love & Basketball (2000): and a lot more besides (Review)
Real (2019): breezy but uneven cycle through working-class romance (Review)
There’s something about bicycles in film, isn’t there? Ever since Vittoria de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, the two-wheeled transport has been used to denote a kind of child’s-eye realism by Ridley Scott (Boy and Bicycle), the Dardenne brothers (The Kid With a Bike) and Haifaa al-Mansour (Wadjda). Even in the more […]
To Sleep With Anger: the eternally youthful Charles Burnett (Review)
The 2003 Martin Scorsese-produced HBO anthology series The Blues featured a lot of big-name directors offering their take on America’s centrally important musical genre. Yet most critics agreed that the best episode wasn’t directed by Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders or Scorsese himself. It was the episode Warming by the Devil’s […]
