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Selah And The Spades
The film centers around a 17-year-old black female, Selah (Lovie Simone). She’s an A student who captains a spirit squad, and doesn’t have sex, but these things don’t make her a good girl. Good girls don’t deal drugs, and Selah is not only an experienced dope pusher at the prestigious boarding school she attends somewhere outside Philadelphia – she also runs a tight ship. Making certain the Spades are the most dominant school clicks or what they call “factions” around campus. There is a tenuous truce between Selah’s Spades and the other factions, which often hints of an interesting backstory from their sophomore year.
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Troop Zero
The movie stars McKenna Grace (GIFTED w/ Chris Evans) she plays Christmas Flint a 10 year-old growing up in 1977 in the small rural town of Wiggly, Georgia. She’s big into outer space and the idea of life on other planets, mainly because it was also a passion of her deceased mother, who Christmas feels is now a part of the stars and the galaxy. But it’s not her tendency to wear a tinfoil hat that makes Christmas Flint an outcast among her peers – she denies it for most of the movie, however, the truth of the matter is the sudden death of her mother has left her with…
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Blow The Man Down
The film starts off moody and atmospheric with fisherman singing sad songs in a small town off the coast of Maine. Priscilla (Sophie Lowe) and Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor) have just buried their mother Mary Margaret Connolly and it seems all the town has come for her repast; including Mary Margaret’s life long girlfriends, all now in their 70’s – Susie Gallagher (June Squibb), Doreen Burke (Marceline Hugot), and Gail Maguire (Annette O’Toole). We find out later one important old friend is absent, Enid Nora Devlin (Margo Martindale) and the why is the crux of the story.
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HONEY BOY
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor “It is strange to fetishize your pain and make a product out of it… you feel guilty about that. It felt very selfish. This whole thing felt very selfish. I never went into this thinking, ‘Oh, I am going to fucking help people.’ That wasn’t my goal. I was falling apart.” – Shia LaBeouf Q&A after the Honey Boy Sundance premiere 2019. I’ve seen a number of self-indulgent, self-serving films from “auteurs” but “Honey Boy” is NOT that at all, instead, it’s entertaining, moving, mesmerizing, heartbreaking and funny. LaBeouf may have needed to write this story, his story as a therapeutic exercise for PTSD, but…
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Brittany Runs a Marathon
Hilarious, outgoing and always up for a good time, New Yorker Brittany Forgler (Jillian Bell) is everybody’s best friend ― except maybe her own. At 27, her hard-partying ways, chronic underemployment and toxic relationships are catching up with her, but when she stops by a new doctor’s office to try to score some Adderall, she gets slapped with a prescription she never wanted: Get healthy. Too broke for a gym and too proud to ask for help, Brit is at a loss, until her seemingly together neighbor Catherine pushes her to lace up her Converse sneakers and run one sweaty block. The next day, she runs two. And soon, after…
