Janelle Monáe

Director Julie Taymor’s often entertaining, yet occasionally whimsical, biography of the feminist icon Gloria Steinem, The Glorias, covers over eighty years of Steinem’s amazing and remarkable life. A feat that is achieved by the portrayal of the subject by no less than four distinctly original actresses at four disparate periods of Steinem’s story. Crafted from Steinem’s memoir, My Life on the Ro...[Read More]

The provocative and timely thriller/pseudo horror film Antebellum arrives at a particularly divisive time in American history that, perhaps mirrors the period it depicts so splendidly onscreen. As the country struggles to finds its moral way amidst a tide of social change that seems to be pushing the ideals of the Constitution aside for those of individuals, this film serves as a reminder of exact...[Read More]