A petty criminal in sent by the FBI to infiltrate the Black Panther Party in Judas and the Black Messiah. William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) is a small-time criminal, who is caught attempting to hijack a car while pretending to be a federal officer. FBI Special Agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) approaches William and offers to drop…
A group of Syrian activists risk their lives to spread the truth about ISIS in City of Ghosts. In 2014, the city of Raqqa in Syria is taken over by the terrorist group Daesh, more commonly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS. With ISIS spreading propaganda about life in the city under…
Two 17th century Jesuit priests find their faith tested as they search for their mentor in Japan in Silence. Jesuit priest Alessandro Valignano (Ciarán Hinds) receives word that the long lost missionary Cristóvão Ferreira (Liam Neeson) has apostatized his faith after being tortured by the anti-Christian Japanese inquisitor Inoue Masashige (Issey Ogata). Ferreira’s pupils Father Sebastião Rodrigues (Andrew…
This review was originally published as part of my coverage of Hot Docs 2015 An FBI informant is followed on his latest undercover operation in (T)ERROR. Since 9/11 the FBI has been has been utilizing more than 15,000 undercover informants to help take down domestic terrorist suspects. One of these individuals is Saeed “Shariff” Torres, who…
The life and career of Orson Welles is profiled in Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles. After an acclaimed early career in theatre and radio, including his infamous 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds, Orson Welles hit the cinematic world by storm with his first feature Citizen Kane. However, Welles would find…
A woman seeks revenge while under a fugue state in 88. Gwen (Katharine Isabelle) finds herself in a diner with no knowledge with how she got there. It turns out that Gwen went into a fugue state after the murder of her boyfriend and she developed an alterego named Flamingo. The action switches between Gwen’s…
An FBI informant is followed on his latest undercover operation in (T)ERROR. Since 9/11 the FBI has been has been utilizing more than 15,000 undercover informants to help take down domestic terrorist suspects. One of these individuals is Saeed "Shariff" Torres, who has worked as an informant for 20 years. A documentary crew follows Shariff…
It’s a very serendipitous blindspot pick for me this month, since I just happened to get The Silence of the Lambs on blu-ray, in a 2-for-1 deal, and I thought that it would be a good film to write about this month (the other film in that deal was the blu-ray for Donnie Darko, which will…
It has been a rough few years for Tom Cruise, however this film was truly a return to form. The fact that the film is partially a comedy lets Cruise poke a little fun at his star personal. As for Cameron Diaz, I thought she was okay enough and she had an alright chemistry with…
I don’t remember much of the first X-Files film, since I had watched it late at night and fell asleep through parts of it. I was hoping the re-watch that film before seeing this film, but I had no luck finding it in the stores (I guess everyone else has the same idea). Anyways, this…
