Gina Prince-Bythewood has directed two of the most devastatingly romantic films of this millennium — Love & Basketball (2000) and Beyond the Lights (2014) — so it might seem odd at first to see her at the helm of a TV show about police violence, unsolved murders, and race relations…
Stylists take on new trends.
The author and filmmaker visits Phoenix this month.
Here’s your chance.
First off, it’s this weekend.
Woke princesses, Cheech, and a weekend of Sherlock.
“It feels like we’re about to explode.”
Dedicated to docs by, for, and about people with intellectual disabilities.
From Tom Leveen, Beth Cato, and more.
Each of the stories from Spent Saints has been turned into a micro-short film.
More money for green beer.
It has to do with GPLETs, taxes, and the constitution.
It was shot in the Valley.
“Do you love her?”
With movie-history viewing choices spawning like mold in a damp room, we can easily see the things we didn’t even know we’d never seen. For me that includes Takashi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy (Arrow Video), a trio of quick, down-and-dirty crime-gang pulp rockets (1995-99) that established Miike as Japan’s fin-de-siècle…
Pop quiz. What comic-book adaptation centers on a white man orphaned by tragedy but blessed with great wealth who travels to an Asian country, only to return to America as a fearsome hero of amazing skill? That’s a trick question, of course: There are too many to count. In Batman…
It’s the take as old as time. Yes, Beauty and the Beast’s love story can be read as a tale of abuse and brainwashing, of a woman imprisoned by a tyrant until she starts chatting with the table settings — and then, as seasons pass, chastising herself in song for…
Even if it were not for the fact that Mean Dreams has become Bill Paxton’s penultimate picture, Nathan Morlando’s thriller would be worth recommending entirely on its own merits. Start with cinematographer Steve Cosens (The Tracey Fragments), who uses sharp focus and the occasional faded Polaroid-style filter to lovingly caress…
Here are the shows you need to see.
He’ll sign the book at Changing Hands this weekend.
Basically, it’s the art equivalent of being a kid in a candy shop.
The leads are excellent — the supporting cast, not so much.
