by Carissa Chin | Nov 13, 2020 | Criticism
As much as it may appear to be, the movie Brooklyn (2015) is not primarily about the city Brooklyn or a girl named Brooklyn. It is, however, based on a novel by Colm Tóibín which is titled Brooklyn. This film is about an Irish girl named Eilis, played by Saoirse...
by Carissa Chin | Oct 21, 2020 | Criticism
Based on a novel of the same title by Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time (2020), directed by Antonio Campus, is the latest thriller film we have been waiting for. Based in rural America, starting from the end of World War II, the film touches on many difficult...
by Carissa Chin | Sep 10, 2020 | Reviews
The premiere of Disney’s live-action Mulan (2020) has sparked many heated debates, even since before it premiered. For fans of Disney’s other live-action princess films, such as Cinderella (2015) or Beauty and the Beast (2017), they should be expecting something...
by Carissa Chin | Apr 16, 2020 | Updates
Welcome to Season Two of Hollywood: Behind the Screen with a variety of films from the 1970s to the end of the century. The films we discuss focus on B-movie auteurs, bigshot producers, paranoid writers, aspiring starlets, and even porn stars. As we enter the New...
by Carissa Chin | May 29, 2018 | Reviews
If you remember the 1990s during the New York blues renaissance, you might remember Satan and Adam. Sterling Magee (Satan) and Adam Gussow were a blues duo who started off on 125th Street in Harlem. They burst into the music industry when they released their debut...
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