Tag: film
Blood simple
It started as love but it ended with a body in the desert. Sometimes, that’s how these things go.
But one look at the small...
Space is the place
When renowned documentarian and filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was initially approached about directing the sci-thriller I.S.S., she didn’t know anything about the International Space Station....
Stillness is a move
She makes the bed. She peels and boils the potatoes. She prepares the coffee and drinks milk. She cleans the small apartment she shares...
Spice world
You know he’s the one because he’s a movie star with piercing eyes, floppy hair, goth vulnerability and untapped strength all in one. He’s...
Watching what we eat
The first time I noticed food on the movie screen was probably the spaghetti-stand kiss in The Lady and the Tramp. Once I started...
Hollywood gate crashers
They play together and laugh, eat meals, discuss school and tend to the garden. They’re just like other families, except for one crucial detail:...
Bestselling book, midlevel movie
It’s not about race; it’s about caste — the system of injustice and subjugation that persists, generation from generation, resistant to the individuals who...
Straight, no chaser
Some people bite the hand that feeds them. American Fiction’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison wants to chew it whole and spit it back out.
Before we...
Off to the races
Enzo Ferrari wants to win. Before he was the founder of the Italian luxury car manufacturer Ferrari S.p.A. and the similarly named Grand Prix...
Always on my mind
Some people are never more alone than they are in the company of others. Adam is such a person.
Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter...
