Hollis Moody·Apr 25, 2021“Body of Lies” — a distinctly American Portrayal of the Middle East.The American Thriller Body of Lies is just that — American. Ridley Scott, director of Blade Runner, and the Boston-Based screenwriter…
Hollis Moody·Mar 28, 2021“Where Do We Go Now?” Is a Tragicomedy TriumphThere’s something about the opening scene to Nadine Labaki’s 2011 film, Where Do We Go Now? that is so haunting. A couple of dozen women…
Hollis Moody·Mar 14, 2021“Wadjda”: On Women, Bike-Riding, and Growing PainsOn the surface, there’s not much to say about director Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Saudi Arabian drama, Wadjda (2012). Wadjda, an adolescent on…
Hollis Moody·Feb 28, 2021Three Cheers and Three Stars for “What Did I Mess?”Set in Lebanon, Shady Hanna’s What Did I Mess is a very relevant romantic comedy about love (ex-love and fake love), family dynamics, and…
Hollis Moody·Feb 17, 2021“Ghadi”: Tastefully Inspirational or Irrationally Optimistic?Ghadi (2013), directed by Amin Dora, is the story of a father’s strategy to get the people in his small, Lebanon town to accept his only…
Hollis Moody·Feb 3, 2021“Amreeka” and Post-9/11 Palestinian TruthsCherien Dabis’ ’09 work of dramatic tragedy, Amreeka is tiers above the expectations of a realistic immigration tale of a mother and son…
InincluviebyHollis Moody·Sep 9, 2020Classic Horror and Modern Femme Fatale in “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night”Director Ana Lily Amirpour meshes the western genre with film noir in A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. She creates an Iranian-based…
InincluviebyHollis Moody·Aug 31, 2020It’s Time to Revisit “Pariah” Almost Ten Years LaterDee Rees’s Pariah (2011) is unfortunately a hidden gem amongst white-centric coming-of-age stories. What is so common in self-discovery…
InincluviebyHollis Moody·Aug 15, 2020A Handshake for “Dallas Buyers Club”Jean-Marc Vallée’s 2013 film, Dallas Buyers Club is a work of riveting drama based on historical events. It tells the true story of rodeo…
InincluviebyHollis Moody·Aug 4, 2020If Life Gives You Limes, Make Margaritas: Praise for “Margarita, With a Straw”Kalki Koechlin in Margarita, With a Straw (2014) portrays a queer woman with Cerebral Palsy and her journey in self-discovery while…
