This was really good, exemplary of Paul Schrader's understanding of slow cinema and his love of building tension like a series of Jenga blocks. The film's encapsulation of faith as a balance between hope and despair is explicitly preached at one point but delivered from the lips of a weary-as-all-hell performance in Ethan Hawke. It deals with some heavily prescient issues that should shake the core of any religious American in 2018 while also giving Hawke a chance to say…

Have you ever witnessed or experienced racial tokenism? A sensation that your exotic nature as a foreigner to a white person is seen as an opportunity to "add value" to their idea of craft?

Well, if you haven't and are looking, seek no further than Colossal. A film that initially demanded my respect for its incredibly low budget and mashing up of the Kaiju genre with depictions of battling personal demons.

The central character, Gloria is a seemingly well-off New…