If you need a heartfelt Indie flick to watch during quarantine, we suggest you start with Clementine. Sydney Sweeney stars in Lara Gallagher’s directorial drama debut Clementine with Otmara Marrero. As we’ve seen time and time again in works like Euphoria, Sharp Objects, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the 22-year-old from Washington is a powerhouse performer. In Clementine, Sydney plays Lana, an impressionable young woman who tries to start a relationship with an older woman searching for refuge at her ex’s lake house. The...

The latest in a line of thrillers starring The Handmaid’s Tale’s Elisabeth Moss is Shirley, a movie adaptation of a book by the same name about a moment in the life of legendary horror author, Shirley Jackson. Perhaps best known for her short story “The Lottery,” which just about everyone and their mom was asked to read at some point in middle school or high school, one might go as far to name Jackson the mother of modern horror (falling only second to the grandmother...

It is May 4 — also known as Star Wars Day. The day when fans all over the world come together to celebrate their love of an epic space saga from a galaxy far, far away.  Over the last 40 years, people have fallen in love with Star Wars, but it’s hard to talk about the fans without talking about the gatekeepers. As a late blooming Star Wars lover myself, I was afraid to jump into Star Wars because of the rabid male fan base. But here...

It’s official: a film about the life and career of beloved singer and actress Whitney Houston is finally in the works. Music producer Clive Davis will be working closely with Pat Houston and the Whitney Houston Estate to produce the biopic which will be titled I Wanna Dance With Somebody. Anthony McCarten, who wrote the screenplay for 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, is currently writing the screenplay while Stella Meghie, who directed the recently released romance The Photograph, starring Issa Rae, is set to direct. The biopic is a...

Sometimes the Rom-Com industry is rife with sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. you name it! But, for many, it is a guilty pleasure filled with love-able cliches, cringe-y jokes and romantic moments. So, to help us get through quarantine here are eight feminist rom-coms to watch guilt-free, in no particular order:   Obvious Child Jenny Slate plays an immature comic who has to grow up quickly and discover herself after her fling with a graduate student (Jack Lacy) results in an unplanned pregnancy. This is the only Rom Com...

Social distancing has been an excellent time to revisit some of my favorite films and mingle with some of my best friends — i.e., the characters. And one protagonist I’ve always longed to forge a friendship with is Morticia Addams.  When I think of a woman who contains multitudes, she’s one of the first who come to mind. The Addams family’s towering matriarch is in charge of her domain. She’s smart, confident, and sexually liberated. She’s devoted to her family, but knows the importance of caring for...

Never Rarely Sometimes Always  Written and directed by Eliza Hittman  Out March 13   “Did it hurt?” asks Skylar (Talia Ryder) after her cousin Autumn Callahan (Sidney Flanigan) finally gets an abortion. She says it didn’t. It’s one of the last moments of dialogue in Never Rarely Sometimes Always, the latest film by writer and director Eliza Hittman, and the exchange sums up a key part of the story: the abortion at its center is far from being the film's most dramatic or emotional plot point. When Autumn,...

How many iterations of Cinderella has there been? The answer is a lot. From the original Grimm fairy tale to the Disney cartoon to the dozens of modern versions including Another Cinderella Story (starring our queen Hilary Duff) and the latest Disney live-action remake, it is a story folks will surely be telling and retelling until the end of time. Nothing, however, nothing beats the 1997 Rodgers & Hammerstein’s film adaptation of Cinderella starring none other than Brandy, Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg, and Bernadette Peters....

SwallowWritten and directed by Carlo Mirabella-DavisOut March 6        Everything about Hunter’s (Haley Bennett) life seems immaculate, from her cashmere turtlenecks to her stunning home overlooking the Hudson River. But the truth is, despite all that upper-crust glamour and her marriage to a wealthy businessman (Austin Stowell), she feels trapped—stuck in a large, sterile house with access to very few people aside from her husband and condescending in-laws (David Rasche and Elizabeth Marvel). Her sense of isolation only grows when she discovers she’s pregnant....

PREMATURECo-written and directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green Out February 21 Premature is a multi-layered coming-of-age love story, admirably co-written by and starring Zora Howard in her screenwriting debut. Howard plays Ayanna, a 17-year-old Harlemite navigating the summer before she heads off to college out-of-state. Filled with uncertainty about the future and wanting to belong, Ayanna finds herself stressing about her mother’s many romantic entanglements and seeking sanctuary amongst her homegirls, all while stumbling into her own love affair with 20-something musician Isaiah (Joshua Boone). Black teen romance...