Roma is cinema. This is how I feel. Film was invented for stories like this. You can't exactly get this from theater or literature. Director Alfonso Cuaron has crafted his masterpiece. This follows around a year into the lives of a middle-class Mexican family from the point of view of their maid set during the turbulent political upheaval of 1970's Mexico. I only regret that I only saw this on my TV streaming from Netflix. But even on the smaller…

Okay, I can't wait to see this movie again. This is indeed the best cinematic reincarnation of Spider-Man and I liked/loved a lot of the past ones. This time, it focuses on Miles Morales, an African-American teenage boy who gets bitten by a radioactive spider and becomes a Spider-Man and he finds various incarnations of other Spider-People in his world as they must stop Kingpin from using a particle accelerator to open alternate parallel universes to resurrect his family. The…

Whoah. This is an intense, exhilarating (just like the blurb in the posters say) film. An ambitious young jazz drummer gets tormented both physically, psychologically and emotionally by a brutal teacher who pushes him beyond his limits in order to realize his full potential and achieve greatness. What follows is not an emotional, feel-good inspiring tale (well, not-so-much) but a brutally honest examination of what it means to achieve one's ambitions. The buzz around JK Simmons' performance is well-earned, IMO…