“I am going to war, and there will be casualties.” Afro-Latina filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt puts her life front and center in her very personal documentary, Beba. Neon picked up the film after its premiere at the Toronto International Film […]

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One of the most visually stimulating films on the festival circuit last year was Neptune Frost. Multi-disciplinary artist Saul Williams and his partner, Rwandan-born artist Anisia Uzeyman, co-directed the Afrofuturist musical that premiered at last year’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, as […]

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The film Mothering Sunday (which I reviewed out of the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival), an adaptation of Graham Swift’s eponymous 2016 novel, follows the journey of protagonist Jane Fairchild from housemaid to celebrated author over the course of the 20th […]

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Filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West have now co-directed three documentary features in a row: RBG, My Name Is Pauli Murray and, the most recent, Julia. This last one is a portrait of the late, great Julia Child, who popularized […]

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Director Steve Pink is perhaps best known for Hot Tub Time Machine (and its sequel), but that is by no means all that he can do (though it’s a lot of fun). His latest feature, The Wheel (which I reviewed), […]

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