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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Tariq’s plunge into the fictitious underbelly of Houston’s religious outfits through the unpacking of faith, fatherhood, and self-forgiveness is among the best in film this year. Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Faith. This one word, arguably, is the most difficult to nail down what it all entails, yet the easiest to identify when in action.
Heartland: Mallory’s Ghost
A story of mystical proportions that is bounded by its views on contentment, understanding, and the only positive example of taking your girlfriend to a place you took previous romantic partners. Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. For Heartland Film Festival schedule and tickets, please click here.
Project Hail Mary
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Nothing ever seems to go right for Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling). In fact, the audience meets Grace as he awkwardly emerges from an induced coma with no idea how he got there or any idea of, well, anything. He is presented with several dilemmas off the bat. His internal back-and-forth between piecing together his past to where he is now for one.
Oh, Hi!
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. About a third into Sophie Brooks’ (“The Boy Downstairs”) sophomore feature, “Oh, Hi!,” we find our protagonist, Iris (Molly Gordon), succumbing to absolute shock. Looking for answers, she calls her mom (Polly Draper) for a blend of reassurance and guidance.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
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On Swift Horses
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I can understand the appeal of a roller coaster. You get to travel at high speeds and fly through the open air. Better yet, one can do this activity with others and relish a shared experience that makes you hold your arms in an ecstatic terror with euphoric screams. You know what usually does not happen during a ride? It stops.
Indy Film Fest: Year of the Cat
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. For Indy Film Fest tickets and showtimes, click here. Absence can signify differing feelings in an individual. Some might find themselves absent from the ones they love. Others might find it in something or an idea that they can not quite envision. In Tony Nguyen’s case, his latest documentary, “Year of the Cat,” chronicles the traumatic impact of not knowing one’s father.
Indy Film Fest: Never Not Yours
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. For Indy Film Fest tickets and showtimes, click here. In John Klein and Steve Kniss’ directorial collaboration, “Never Not Yours,” the premise revolves around how three adult children cope with the startling announcement that their retired parents are going to divorce.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” comes seven years after her last feature film “I Am Not a Witch.” In Zambia, we follow the immediate aftermath of how a family deals with the loss of a loved one. And again in her second feature film, Nyoni portrays the bonds and intimate way of life of a community through the lens of our main characters. Shula (Susan Chardy) is our guiding force for what is in store after the death of her Uncle Fred (Roy Chisha).
Seven Veils
The idea of “falling… with style” can mean many things. For many, it is synonymous with the climatic scene in “Toy Story.” An infamous moment in film where Woody and Buzz find their way back to Andy. Through another understanding, I often link it with a work like “Seven Veils.” What appears first as an object or piece of art that indicates the graciousness of flight; only for momentum to stop.
Mackie deserves the best of Marvel Studio creatives
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. " I said no a bunch, and every time I said no, I woke up the next morning so happy and content. I kept saying no; they kept coming back. And eventually I was like, 'You know what?
Emilia Pérez and its star fail to deliver
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The path was clear. An embarrassment of riches coming out of the Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival). Think of films like “All About Eve (1950)”, “L’Avventura (1960)”, “Tropical Malady (2004)”, and even more recently, “EO (2022)”. These are some of the many celebrated films that call themselves Cannes Jury Prize winners.
The Ladder, by Reed Mathis
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2020 Reflections With Bassist Reed Mathis (Electric Beethoven, Golden Gate Wingmen)
As people from all walks of life figure out how to get by in the age of coronavirus, musicians are left to figure out how to adapt to a world in which live concerts are out of the question.
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