Aakif Iqbal
Take it or Leave it: Thanksgiving kinda rocks
Thanksgiving cannot be discussed without acknowledging the colonial and imperialist implications of the holiday. The idea of a holiday being surrounded around gratitude while...
R’Perspective: Halloween kinda sucks
If there was ever a purpose to Halloween, to me it meant getting candy. This is the one day a year my consumption was...
Write-Off: Live-action films will forever reign supreme
When discussing the current cinema landscape, it is normal to include animated films. Whether it’s Hayao Miyazaki’s work at Studio Ghibli or the Pixar...
‘One Battle After Another’ a surprisingly-modern blockbuster
If the movies of the 2010s were defined by major blockbuster IP-driven escapism, halfway through the 2020s, it seems as though this decade is...
“The Paper” is not like other spin-offs.
The case has been made that with the landscape of television and movies right now, original stories are a rarity. Every “new” release is...
Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’: A welcome return to form.
It remains true that a director whose work was categorized as part of the “New Sincerity movement” is just as sincere and earnest in...
‘Sinners’ reinvents the Southern tale
Every now and then a film will come along that will unite all sectors of the movie-going community — the critics, the cinephiles and...
Black Country, New Road’s ‘Forever Howlong:’ a lesson in rolling with the punches
There is no band without its lead singer. There is no Nirvana without Kurt Cobain. There is no Queen without Freddie Mercury. There is...
Top 10 Spring Movies
“(500) Days of Summer” (2009)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel have never soared higher than in “(500) Days of Summer.” This film contains one of...
The power of visual storytelling: screening and Q&A with Ora Dekornfield
On Friday, Feb. 28, right inside the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) interdisciplinary south (INTS) 1128, three films were screened. “USA vs....