‘The Forgiven’: When Worlds, Uh, Collide
Photo: ‘The Forgiven’ The People of the Worlds ‘The Forgiven’ gets most of its juice from the tension between its two worlds: the sneering, hollow world of the Western elitists and the conservative culture of the Muslim Moroccans. It’s a familiar device, but the...
Hollywood is Getting Smaller, So They Need to Work on Making Their Films Bigger
Photo: ‘Thor’ It’s a sentence and phrase that is heard again and again: Disney or some other large entertainment company has purchased another struggling entertainment company and taken over all their assets. This is an event that over the course of the...
‘Under The Amalfi Sun’: A Satisfactory Netflix Rom-ComÂ
Photo: ‘Under The Amalfi Sun’ When sitting at home on any given evening with nothing to do, nowhere to be, and no other shows to binge, one might scour the handful of streaming services to find a film that seems as if it’ll provide a pleasant experience to...
Billy Porter’s Directorial Debut ‘Anything’s Possible’: Amazon’s Dramedy
Photo: ‘Anything’s Possible’ Romantic Comedies and Me ‘Anything’s Possible’ is a romantic teen dramedy directed by actor/singer/songwriter Billy Porter in his directorial debut, and written by Ximeno GarcÃa Lecuona. Lecuona’s script was originally on the 2020 Black...
