If you go by the numbers, technically, the new Halloween is the eleventh in the series. However, director David Gordon Green wants you to forget the middle nine. Evidently, like Bobby Ewing’s wake-up call in the shower, we have to assume all those previous outings were dreams, or in this case, nightmares. Not a difficult […]

“I was nine-years-old when I got the talk.” Those are the words of sixteen-year-old Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) spoken as a voice-over during the opening sequence to director George Tillman Jr.’s devastating new drama, The Hate U Give. The ‘talk’ Starr is referring to is the one her father, Maverick Carter (Russell Hornsby) gives to […]

In his youth, before he passed his driving test, Neil Armstrong earned his pilot’s license. Unlike most teenagers of his age, his fascination for flying far surpassed his interest in anything else, including having a girlfriend or driving cars. While that small nugget isn’t included in director Damien Chazelle’s epic drama First Man, it is […]