JaySweezy: Rookie Of The Year (Album Review): Written By Jaeden Noel
I AM NOT FANTANO Local artist JaySweezy has officially claimed 2020 as his year. The Milton native coming from my hometown has managed to keep the city on its toes with recent releases such as his EP Know Me Now and the now vaulted EP Sub Me In. To spread some holiday cheer, he dropped […]
Promising Young Woman (2020) Early Review: Best Film Of The Year? (Written By Jaeden Noel)
If theres one movie thats going to be remembered for decades to come that was released in 2020, it’s going to be this one. Promising Young Woman is the directorial Emerald Fennell and stars Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham and Laverne Cox. The film follows Cassandra (Mulligan) traumatized by a tragic event in her college […]
La Haine (Criterion Review) (Written by Ana Saplala)
With Les Miserables signalling Ladj Ly’s rise to recognition in contemporary French cinema, one simply cannot watch the director’s debut film without bringing to mind its predecessor – a film that not only broadened its examination of racial tensions in France, but would come (and continue to) define the country’s prevalence with race relations to this […]
Songbird (2020) Movie Review: Idiotic & Ignorant (Written By Jaeden Noel)
Dear Mr. Hollywood, Hey, congratulations on one of the first big films to be made during the pandemic. Regardless of how bad this movie is, it’s still cool you managed to pull this together. That being said Mr. Hollywood, we don’t want this. Not now, not in four years, not ever. In a world where […]
Euphoria: Trouble Don’t Always Last (Episode 1) Review: Written By Hussain Alokaily
Euphoria: Trouble Don’t Always Last is a new in-between episode of the HBO series directed by Sam Levinson and starring Zendaya and Colman Domingo. After being left by Jules at the train station and relapsing, the first special episode follows Rue as she celebrates the holiday of Christmas. Rue’s relapse into drugs leads her to […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) Early Movie Review: A Tightly Contained Near Masterpiece.
Truly at a loss for words here. Going into this one could of expected many of different things, but what we ultimately get is so much more powerful than anything to come out this past year. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is the new drama based on the play of the same name and is directed […]
Sound Of Metal (2020) Review: An Emotional Hard Hitting Drama (Written By Jaeden Noel)
With Mogul Mowgli & Sound Of Metal both on the circuits this year, this is one physically painful year for Riz Ahmed’s characters. Sound of Metal sees Ahmed in the main role of Rueben, a drummer who begins to lose his hearing and must come to terms with this new sad reality. The film, […]
Freaky (2020) Review: Absolute Hit! (Written By Jaeden Noel)
If you told me two months ago when this film started it’s marketing that it would be amongst my favourite of the year, I would of laughed my butt off. Turns out however, Freaky is the medicine I needed right now in these unprecedented times. Being the first film I’ve seen in theatres since […]
The Kid Detective (2020): A Very Dark Adventure (Written By Jaeden Noel)
The Kid Detective is the newest film on the shelf to get put into theatres in the sure but slow revival of theatres around the world. Directed by Evan Morgan, the film stars Adam Brody as Abe Applebaum, a once renowned child detective who seems to struggle in his middle age. When a fresh […]
Come Play (2020) Review: A Frustrating Bad Experience (Written By Jaeden Noel)
I have a feeling this was never supposed to come out in theatres… Come Play is the new horror movie to get a theatrical release amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, starring Azhy Robertson (Marriage Story) and Gillian Jacobs (I Used To Go Here). The film follows Oliver, a non-verbal autistic young boy who uses his electronic […]