Ah, the musical. A relic of the past. For a time, directors couldn’t fight the impulse to make a musical:…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in Manhattan with his family. In addition to film criticism, he writes short fiction. Kevin's main area of interest is misunderstood older films, which he prefers to watch either at NYC's Film Forum or on DVD at home.
At an “Oh, Canada” post-screening Q&A, Uma Thurman spoke about her nervous anticipation ahead of meeting acclaimed Writer/Director Paul Schrader…
Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the confrontational, cantankerous and miserable spitfire in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” is so relentlessly combative that many…
David Cronenberg loves twins. In “Dead Ringers” (1988), an adaptation of Bari Wood’s novel “Twins” (remade into a 2023 miniseries…
James Baldwin (1924-1987) would’ve turned one-hundred this year, and in honor of his centennial, museum exhibits abound for the iconic…
The potential for dread and disaster looms over Neo Sora’s “Happyend,” which made its US premiere at this year’s iteration…
A couple decades ago, my friends and I played in a men’s baseball league. We had the youngest team (name:…
Pedro Almodóvar’s elegant and animated artistic vision colors death in bright reds and jagged purples, turning “The Room Next Door”…
The interiors set the mood in “Maria,” the latest gilded-edged biopic from Pablo Larraín. Crisp and sparkling, the look-don’t-touch aura…
Published in 2019, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys” boldly reworked the harrowing, scarier-than-fiction true story of the…