Inverno (Timo’s Winter): Review. By Trent Neely. This short film directed and co-written by Giulio Mastromauro tells the story of a family of Funfair workers: Timo, his father, his mother, grandfather, and grandmother during the winter as they work to prepare to open the fair and cope with the mother’s
Nic Cage, aliens, and jiu-jitsu. It's a holy trinity of genre campiness that seems almost too good to be true. Thankfully, that's what director Dimitri Logothetis delivers with his latest effort Jiu Jitsu. Logothetis' film boasts a plethora of shamelessly over-the-top genre setpieces, more than enough to counter the film's
Softie: Review. By Trent Neely. This new documentary from PBS follows Boniface “Softi” Mwangi, a Kenyan photojournalist turned political activist. Who, after years of watching everyday Kenyans suffer injustices on nearly every level, due to economic instability, civil unrest, and political corruption, decides to run for a seat in the
Marvel 616 Episode 1: Japanese Spiderman - Disney+ Talk. Disney+ have recently added a new show to their streaming service called ‘Marvel 616’. This 8-episode series explores various aspects of the Marvel phenomenon in terms of previously lost media, cosplays, representation and new era comics. And the first episode is simply
Hillbilly Elegy: The BRWC Review - J. D. Vance (Gabriel Vasso) is a Yale graduate who had a poor upbringing wrought with troubles. His mother, Bev (Amy Adams) was a nurse, but her addiction to drugs led her down a bad road with psychological problems and it eventually fell on
