Any biopic (pronounced BIo-pic) requires consolidating and artistic license to encapsulate anybody’s life into a two hour film. On the Basis of Sex turns Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Felicity Jones)’s life into an electrifying courtroom drama, including all the prep. Ginsberg looks so fulfilled just entering the halls of Harvard, but the school makes it clear […]
Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation is the American Braveheart. Mel Gibson actually starred in a blatant attempt to make an American Braveheart. Among The Patriot‘s many problems, fundamental may be that the white colonists and plantation owners were not the William Wallace characters against the British. African-Americans are the American William Wallaces for […]
I’d never seen The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV show, so I can’t tell you how well the movie captures the show. I’m up for a Guy Ritchie spy movie with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer though, and that was pretty good. The film captures the “looking over your shoulder” feel of Cold War spy movies, […]