Growing up in London in the 2000s isn’t easy. Two teens looking for direction and themselves connect over music and life as they become almost adults.
Jakob’s Wife (2021)
A Minister’s wife who’s been stuck in a rut and looking for more in life meets a being she begins to call the Master. As her life changes, she can’t help but appreciate the new sensations and elements in her life.
Laurel and Hardy: The Last 10 Years on Film
Were Laurel & Hardy’s final stretch of films at 20th Century Fox and MGM plus the French “Atoll K” really as bad as many critics insist? On this “Online Movie Show” episode, film historian Geno Cuddy offers insight on whether Stan and Ollie deserved better from the the critics.
Nuevo Rico (2020) [SXSW 2021]
Director Kristian Mercado Figueroa’s short musical is a brilliant and excellent look at the end of the potential creeping end of the American territory known as Puerto Rico. Though fiction, Mercado brings to light the very troubling developments that could change how Puerto Ricans connect to their homeland. In the near future, the raw land of Puerto Rico has been destroyed in favor of a futuristic dystopia now known as Nuevo Rico.
Running Time (1997): Special Edition [Blu-Ray]
It’s not often that we get crime thrillers that unfold in real time, but Josh Becker’s indie “Running Time” takes a shot and does a great job of it. “Running Time” is true to its word, a movie that unravels over the course of a little over an hour, and the run time for the narrative is apt. The movie is not too long, refusing to pad the story, buts it’s never too short to where we’re left asking questions. It runs a good pace as a tense drama that feels kind of like a prologue to “Reservoir Dogs.” Campbell is stellar and the movie almost makes it to the finish line without a hitch. Almost, but not quite.
You Have to See This! Juice (1992)
After years of working with Spike Lee, Director Ernest R. Dickerson was ripe to deliver some of his own films with taut social commentary. Out of his entire career, “Juice” is easily one of his best, if not his absolute best. While it’s not quite as darkly satirical as Spike Lee’s films tend to be, “Juice” is very much ahead of its time. It’s very much about economic impact on minority teens, and the idea of toxic masculinity. “Juice” is mainly seen as a crime drama, it’s also about boys growing up in to men and trying to figure out exactly where they fit in.
The Power (2021)
Early 1970s England, a young woman is hired as a nurse and put on the night shift while local miners on strike turn off the power. What she finds in the darkness of her new job is something that she may not be able to leave behind.