Category: Opinion
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Money and Love in the New Season of Beef (2026)
Despite its aggressiveness, the Beef anthology series is about romantic love in all its forms. The final scene of the first season led us to believe that, despite the conflict, drama, and toxic traits, the main characters would end up together and, most likely, live happily ever after. The whole “beef” plot was the prelude…
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“Omaha”: Innocence Broken by Economic Injustice
Omaha reminds us of what it can feel like to look at old family photographs. You sit with the bittersweetness, allowing it to wash over you; not drowning in it, but certainly affected by it.
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Animal Farm: Viva la Dystopia
This incarnation of Animal Farm is filled with the generic plot points, immature humor, cardboard characters and visual flaws that you have come to know from today’s lesser children’s films.
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“Michael” and the Tension of Lacking Tension
It is not hard to make a musical biopic that pleases audiences and draws a profit. Michael is no exception.
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“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” (2025) Film Review-Taking a risk to love and trust again via fantastical, shared paths
Strangers in a crowd, exchanging glances, looking away, continually managing to run into each other then part ways, end up at the same diner, find they’ve rented the exact same vehicles, and are then made to travel together to learn once more whether they can both find genuine adoration and companionship again. This really does,…
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‘American Fiction’ Speaks Truth
American Fiction is a genuinely entertaining film with a few lessons.
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Not Much More than Magic in ‘Maestro’
In ‘Maestro,’ we’re left with an impression but not with an understanding of the main character.
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Pro-Capitalism and other Antiquated Ideas on Court TV
Court TV shows offer uncritical eyes on the systemic inequalities of the legal world.
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The Good Deeds in ‘A Good Person’
‘A Good Person’ makes it clear that forgiveness is hard.
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A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.