Posts Tagged ‘Wunmi Mosaku’
Film Review – The Social Reckoning
Aaron Sorkin’s fascination with Mark Zuckerberg and the online behemoth that is Facebook continues with The Social Reckoning (2026). Of course, we cannot talk about this film without talking about Sorkin’s Oscar-winning work in The Social Network (2011). In that, we saw a young Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) create the platform and…
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Top 15 Films of 2025 – Allen’s Picks
2025 felt like a transitional year for the movies, a lot of which was not good. Several big screen legends left us, including (but not limited to) Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Val Kilmer, and David Lynch. Of course, the industry is still in shock from the untimely passing…
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Film Review – Alice, Darling
Alice, Darling (2022) marks a turn for Anna Kendrick. Most of her career has been filled with comedies and musicals, with the occasional exception sprinkled throughout. Here, we see her in a deeply serious drama involving abuse, trauma, and toxic relationships. While we haven’t seen her in…
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TV Review – Loki
The first episode of Loki premiered on Disney+ this week. I don’t subscribe to that streaming channel, so I was pleasantly surprised to see screeners for the first two episodes in my inbox earlier this week. Having not watched WandaVision or The Falcon and the…
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Top 15 Films of 2020 – Allen’s Picks
2020 has been a tough year, to say the least. It seemed everyday something new came and turned our lives upside down. There was racially motivated police brutality that sparked a world-wide reaction, an ugly presidential election in which the ramifications are still coming into…
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Film Review – His House
His House (2020) operates on multiple levels. It’s a spooky haunted house story, an emotionally powerful character study, and a social statement on the trials and tribulations of immigration. The fact that it hits on all of these beats effectively is a testament to director…
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