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Rocks 2019
Man, how it starts with a group of black and brown girls hanging out in their estate, looking out at the London high-rise buildings, dreaming that their non-existent boyfriends would just take them to the Shard, even though it’s just a stone’s throw away.
Rocks is about the gaps in the British childcare system, how underfunded foster programs and inattentive social care programs come together to ultimately fail the needs of individual young people. Being a teacher in one of…
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The Sisters Brothers 2018
Just to let you all know that if more acclaimed French filmmakers start making American cowboy films, so much that it starts to become a thing, then I was the guy who coined the phrase you’re looking for.
This is a Baguetti Western.
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American Fiction 2023
Still not great, but that “we just need to listen to black voices” line is still possibly the joke of the year
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Ricky Stanicky 2024
Exactly the sort of shitty comedy that we’ve left a gaping hole in our cinematic universe for. It certainly fills that hole, so it deserves credit for that. John Cena elevates this to a level at which it can just about be considered watchable. Much funnier first half than second.