The media is filled with endless content about how bad today’s films are and the glut of superhero nonsense. “Emily” is a ravishing and real alternative.
Where “The Whale” mumbles something about inner beauty, something about believing against all odds in freer, unrestrained versions of ourselves, it sinks under its own massive weight.
Despite the uneven plot, flat characters, and underdeveloped themes, “Hellraiser” succeeds in the most important element of a horror film: It is scary and dark.
The new documentary puts the words of civil rights icons under a microscope, showing how they planted the seeds for the dismal present-day situation of blacks in America.
Perhaps if Western society thought a little bit more in terms of what we do and not in terms of what we so narcissitically feel, we would be in a different place.