Maestro
Maestro is a very ambitious film. Co-written and directed by and starring Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born, Silver Linings Playbook), it attempts to tell the story of Leonard Bernstein,…
Cassandro
I've been a fan of Gael Garcia Bernal (Y tu mamá también, "Mozart in the Jungle", No) for a very long time. I love that he tackles such a wide…
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Here's what I wanna do after watching Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody: 1) surf YouTube for real clips from all the great moments showcased in the film, including…
Review: Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
A couple of weeks before I saw this film, I read filmmaker Werner Herzog’s first novel "The Twilight World,” which draws on his meeting 25 years ago with Hiroo Onoda,…
Review: ELVIS
I've been a pretty big fan of Elvis Presley ever since I made a whirlwind pilgrimage to Graceland in the late 1980s, about a decade after he died at the…
Review: King Richard
If you're at all into tennis, this is a must see. Even if you're not, you can't help but be aware of the amazing Williams sisters, Venus and Serena. King…
Review: Tick, Tick…Boom!
Tick, Tick...Boom! Andrew Garfield is dynamite and so is this film--especially if you’re a musical theater geek. Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Hamilton) makes…
Adaptation
Arty Chick
Based on True Story
Biopic
Comedy
Documentary
Drama
Female led films
Foreign
Indie
LGBTQ
Musical
Romance
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Thriller
Nashville Film Festival Rundown
This was my first time (virtually) attending the Nashville Film Festival. It is close enough for me to drive over, but that was not possible this time around. They had a…
Review: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
If Oscar History is any judge, it doesn’t matter that The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a pretty dull film. Jessica Chastain is brilliant in it. And I suspect she…
Review: RESPECT
You gotta respect the artist and the music, even if the movie itself feels a bit stale. Jennifer Hudson sings it out of the park as the legendary 'Queen of…
Adaptation
Amazon Original
Arty Chick
Award Winning
Biopic
Chinese
Danish
Documentary
Drama
Eastern European
Female led films
Israeli/Palestinian
Korean
Scandinavian
Special Feature
Arty Chick’s Oscar Ballot
Update: I began my Oscar viewing thinking the show was fun and creative, but it went totally off the rails about half way through and ended in the most abrupt…
Review: Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah is one of those movies you should watch, even if you don't really want to. It's another stark reminder of how the FBI operated under…
Review: Son of the South
"Not choosing sides is a choice," Rosa Parks (Sharonne Lanier) tells white college boy Bob Zellner (Lucas Till) when he talks to the civil rights icon a few years after…
Review: One Night in Miami
Academy Award winning actress Regina King's extraordinary directorial debut is an adaptation of a play that tells the story of one evening in 1964 when four African-American icons get together…
Review: The Glorias
There is a line near the end of The Glorias about going in circles – as women, as a society, as a nation. A reminder, underscored in recent days by…