SHAPSHOT After losing an audition for her dream job, an aspiring Los Angeles TV news anchor goes out for an uncharacteristic night of partying. She awakes in a stranger’s bed to a phone message from her agent telling her the job is hers, if she can make it across Continue Reading
Movie review: 12 Years a Slave
Watching 12 Years a Slave, director Steve McQueen’s masterfully evocative depiction of the story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from Saratoga, New York kidnapped into slavery in the mid-19th century American South, is as you might expect, a profoundly confronting, and deeply moving experience. From Continue Reading