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Playback: Nia DaCosta, Life on the Edge, from LITTLE WOODS to 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
Nia DaCosta gravitates toward stories -- whether intimate dramas, horror reinventions, literary adaptations, or major franchises -- where her characters are pushed into extreme situations. Across these films, human vulnerability and choice remain central, with complex interior lives sharpening as...
Review: TOUCHED WITH FIRE, Earnest And Sincere About Bipolar Disorder
Earnest. Very, very earnest. And sincere; very, very sincere. And beyond that, what can one say about a film that deals so nakedly with a very serious illness -- point out it has pimples? Touched With Fire, originally titled Mania...
Review: TAKE THIS WALTZ, Sensitive and Smart, Yet Curiously Dispassionate
Occasionally a film will come out that for some reason has some people wildly pontificating about how "good" it is, and you watch it and agree that is good, even if you concede that you didn't like it very much....
