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by Colton Peregoy, Staff Writer Shot with a steely grey calculation that reflects its bleak zeitgeist, How to Divorce During the War feels highly attuned to the deterioration of contemporary family life that preoccupies so many narratives across today’s cinematic landscape.
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer The meeting of Agnieszka Holland with a Franz Kafka biopic is an absolutely perfect match-up of director to subject.
by MD Russell, Staff Writer Tonally, The Snare begins to feel more like a horror movie.
by Avery Coffey, Staff Writer In comparing the way women are viewed in Western society to that of Africa, Alana’s frustrations are visceral through the screen. She fantasizes about the freedom she could have in Africa while being weighed down by America’s patriarchal misogyny.
by Darian Davis, Associate Editor The End of Oak Street is a rip-roaring horror adventure with the sort of dinosaurs we haven’t really seen on the big screen before.
by Kevin Fox Jr., Staff Writer Highlights from three of BlackStar’s documentary shorts programs this year.
by Tim Stevens, Staff Writer All Night Wrong gets funnier the worse everything gets, without ever losing its grip on the noir underneath.
by James Bojaciuk, Staff Writer Lara Croft—difficult, destructive, and dedicated to having her own way—appears on screen without losing herself. Angelina Jolie captures her selfishness, her puckishness, and the layers that sometimes reveal the better person she doesn’t know she can be.
by Rosalie Kicks Old Sport and Editor in Chief The annual celebration may be coming to a close but there is still some exciting watches that are yet to come.
by Hilde Nelson, MovieJawn Intern As an avid consumer of romance fiction and film, I’m drawn to how Lubitsch works both within and against generic conventions in Cluny Brown.
by "Doc" Hunter Bush, MovieJawn Podcast Director and Staff Writer Pee-wee still feels special, and there might be no better encapsulation of Pee-wee or his ethos than Big Adventure.
by Sam Christian, Staff Writer The Sexploiters and Raw Love have never looked better than in this release. This collection is well worth the money for the cult film fan in your life.
by Avery Coffey, Staff Writer There’s no better time to watch a documentary reminding us that Black lives and history matter than the moment we are in right now.
