I want to lash out at Quinn Shephard's "Not Okay" now on Hulu. I want to lash out because Danni Sanders, played by Zoey Deutch, is me. Ironically, she's all of us. Too afraid to live, too scared to move, too afraid to . . . . insert any other adjective that intrinsically breathes any [...]
Writer-director Asghar Farhadi came to my attention a few years ago with his intense dramas, The Salesman and Everybody Knows. A fascination developed with the director's eye toward the respective film's subjects and their environments. In his latest film, A Hero, Farhadi’s lens expertly captures anxious chaos in historic Shiraz, Iran, and in his character, [...]
Premiering at Cannes last May and France’s Official Best International Feature Film, Ladj Ly’s “Les Misérables” is a grand look at the intersection between the police and the slums of urban Paris in modern times. Damien Bonnard plays Stéphane, a member of the anti-crime brigade. Stéphane is presented as someone with conviction and morals. Conviction [...]
