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ZOLA (Sundance 2020 Premiere)
Basically, ZOLA is a recounting of how Zola (Taylour Paige) (pretty, 20-something black female) meets Stefani (Riley Keough )(pretty 20-something white female), it seems one exotic dancer can always recognize another, and they strike up a friendship, which goes horribly wrong when Stefani invites Zola on a road trip to Tampa to dance. Strippers can make more money traveling to other cities to work the pole, as they’re considered “new talent” to customers tired of the same ol girls. I don’t think any trouble would have come of the trip if the girls were on their own, Unfortunately, they are accompanied by Stefani’s dim-witted boyfriend Derrick (Nicholas Braun ) and…
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UNCUT GEMS
Next thing you know, I am DEEP into this flick!!! The tension built is genius. The score is maddening, but really heightens the mood. Characters just talk over one another, speaking at the same time, like real life. Actually, half of them I think were real people, not actors. There’s never a dull moment.
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Lady Bird
I’m always looking for interesting, and original points of view in a movie review and I found one: “The movie brings up tendrils of intersectional discourse — race, class issues, reproductive rights, mental health — only to leave them shriveling in the backdrop of the movie, their importance not even secondary to Lady Bird’s white girl problems. These topics were thrown into the film in the same way left-leaning people toss words and platitudes into regular conversation to make themselves seem “with it” and well-rounded thinkers, while simultaneously avoiding any meaningful discussion or real-life engagement with the issues…” by Aditi Natasha Kini TheWeek.com – https://tinyurl.com/y9hl9oh6 But I don’t agree with…
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Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM & James Franco’s THE DISASTER ARTIST
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at THE DISASTER ARTIST & THE ROOM By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor A couple weeks ago when I received Allied’s weekly screening list, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room was scheduled. I didn’t know anything about the movie, so I went to You Tube for a trailer and discovered something weird and nonsensical – only it didn’t appear to be a comedy or a spoof. I didn’t even finish watching the trailer; I just sorta scratched my head, didn’t give it a lot of thought and chose the other films on the list I planned to see in the coming week. Tinsel & Tine Movie Selfie Cut to…
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A Revlock Review: ROOM
Room is Harrowing yet Humane By Tinsel & Tine Contributor, Mikhail Revlock One cannot fault a sensitive, horror-averse moviegoer for balking at the premise of ROOM. On paper, the film reads as a realist revitalization of torture-porn tropes: Joy (Brie Larson) is kidnapped at nineteen by a bearded creep whom she refers to as Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), he imprisons her in a fortified garden shed and rapes her with nightly regularity, she gives birth to a child, and they live together in this tiny room for five years. With Eli Roth (Hostel) or James Wan (Saw) at the helm, Room could have represented an exercise in limit-pushing. However,…
