Reel Encounters

Coming of age in “Green Days By the River”

As much as Michael Anthony’s “Green Days by the River” has turned into a symbolic text of colonial life in Trinidad and Tobago, the story will always depend more on its value as a coming-of-age tale more than anything else.

Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham in “The Post”
Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham in “The Post”

Smart journalism in “The Post”

Steven Spielberg’s recently released film “The Post” is a very particular kind of “culturally relevant message film.”

Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, and Luciano Acuna Jr. in The Greatest Showman (2017)

Not quite “The Greatest Showman”

There’s something paradoxical about a 21st century film musical and even more so about “The Greatest Showman,” which is not the best or worst representation of what musicals are in 2017.

Ghosts that we knew

Who invented the bedsheet ghost? The image of a ghost marked by donning a white sheet with holes for eyes is a classic and familiar concept.

Shadows on the Beach

“Beach Rats,” the winner of the best director award at this year’s Sundance film festival, is a filmic bildungsroman.

A charming but uneven murder mystery

I made the potentially problematic decision, to screen Sidney Lumet’s 1974 adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express” a few days after watching the recent 2017 Kenneth Branagh directed version.

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