BY M TÉLLEZ **Spoilers Alert** During the first great plague of the 21st century, Hollywood took to producing Don’t Look Up, an engrossing film about a comet striking the Earth and all of humanity too caught up reacting to their social media feeds to stop it....
BY GABE CASTRO **This article contains spoilers** Frida Kempff’s debut feature Knocking gets under your skin the way an incessant noise that only you can hear does. Following a woman recently released from a mental health facility after experiencing a traumatic event, Kempff explores the vulnerability of...
BY DALI ADEKUNLE Philadelphia Free Library cardholders can enjoy Bacurau for free on Kanopy. You can sign up online for a library card and create your Kanopy account. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles' Bacurau (2019) is an homage to and self-portrait of Afro-Indigenous Brazil. The opening...
BY DIANA LU cinéSPEAK is proud to be an official PAAFF 2020 Community Partner. The Donut King is the closing night film at the 2020 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, where it will be screening live on November 15, at 6:30pm. The film is followed by...
BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is the largest publicly attended film festival in the world, and one of the most internationally recognized festivals. With the spread of the pandemic, film festivals globally have shifted to virtual screenings and socially-distanced, in-person screenings. The...
BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR “Utopia means both good place and no place,” meditates Academy Award nominated filmmaker Hubert Sauper in his latest feature documentary Epicentro. The film was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Throughout Epicentro, the Austrian director...
BY ROSA PARRA of LATINX LENS EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS —WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU ENJOY THIS FILM PRIOR TO READING In an era where many of us are asking for diversity, inclusivity, and different stories, it’s a breath of fresh air to watch “Song...