Posted on July 8, 2018 at 3:14 pm
One of the best essays about film I’ve read this year is Roxana Hadadi’s “Amid the Latest Western Genre Resurgence, ‘Lean on Pete’ and ‘The Rider’ Challenge Cowboy Masculinity in the American West” in Pajiba. She discusses several recent movies, including “Logan,” HBO’s “Westworld,” and “Hell or High Water,” but focuses on “Lean on Pete” …
Posted on July 8, 2018 at 8:00 am
I didn’t like “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.” But I made no pretense of being fit to evaluate its portrayal of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. So I was glad to see this round-up of responses to the film from Latino critics. All are worth reading in full. Here are some highlights. Carlos Aguilar: If you are …
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Posted on July 7, 2018 at 7:27 pm
Ben Foster stars in Debra Granik’s new film, “Leave No Trace,” as a veteran with PTSD who lives in a public park with his daughter. It is based on Peter Rock’s novel My Abandonment, which itself inspired by a news story reporting that a father and daughter were living off the grid but in plain sight. …
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Posted on July 6, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Boots Riley is a filmmaker who made a slight detour into music, where he found great success as lead singer for The Coup and Galactic, and in teaching a high school class called “Culture and Resistance: Persuasive Lyric Writing.” His provocative, wildly funny, and remarkably assured first film is Sorry to Bother You, starring LaKieth …
Posted on July 6, 2018 at 8:00 am
You might know the stories of Malala Yousafzai, Anne Frank, Jazz Jennings, and Joan of Arc. But have you heard about Yusra Mardini, a Syrian refugee who swam a sinking boat to shore, saved twenty lives, then went on to compete as an Olympic swimmer? Or Trisha Prabhu, who invented an anti-cyberbullying app at age …
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