The early scenes do a good job of establishing Elwood’s character. He is a naive and hopeful teenager who wants to aid the civil rights movement and get a good education. He is kind to a fault and ...
Where Oppenheimer displays total control of his craft of visual storytelling, the film fails the shortcomings of its script -- specifically, the choice to tell this story as a musical. The decision is ...
Directed by documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer, The End follows a Dystopian Earth where a wealthy couple -- Father (Michael Shannon) and Mother (Tilda Swinton) -- have survived by living in a ...
An accomplished historian and author of "The Impeachers," Wineapple takes her time setting up the story. In a leisurely manner—perhaps too leisurely—her narrative encompasses Prohibition, the Ku Klux ...
Keeping the Faith by Brenda Wineapple tells the story of the infamous “Scopes Monkey Trial” unfolding in Dayton, Tennessee, in the summer of 1925. A high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was hauled ...
Eggers’ recreation of 19th-century Europe allows Nosferatu to serve as a reclamation of history, where women are at the forefront, while also enabling the director to take contemporary conversations ...
Ahead of Nosferatu, I revisited Robert Eggers' previous films —The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman— to better understand the director’s obsession with history and folklore. Eggers, whose ...
I've spent most of this year traveling, starting in South America and trekking through Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. But there are only five places I'd go back to in ...