Last Wednesday night, The Ingrid Michaelson Trio graced the Lincoln theater stage in D.C. for their Ingrid Michaelson Presents: Songs of the Season tour. Led by indie-pop artist Ingrid Michaelson, the trio sang the night away with holiday cheer, pitch-perfect three-part harmony, and campy choreography.
Remaking a children’s classic is hard. Building upon one as a sequel 50+ years later with an entirely new cast is harder. You want the film to stand on its own without distancing itself too far from the original. Mary Poppins: Returns handles this balance fairly well. Directed by Chicago’s Rob Marshall and produced to the nines by Disney, the film does the impossible; it almost lives up to the original.
There is one every single year. Preying on the divisiveness of racial politics with the notion that we are more similar than we are different. The Oscar-bait race film is a delicate breed of manipulation, white guilt, and genuine feels. In past, these films do great at the Oscars but age rather poorly (see The Helpor The Blind Side). Tired tropes such as the white savior and the magical negro grace our screens and because race is such a tricky subject to navigate
For 10 minutes on a bright sunny October Friday, I had the opportunity to sit and talk to Garrard Conley and Joel Edgerton, the writer of the memoir Boy Erased and the writer, director, producer and star of the upcoming movie of the same name. Boy Erased,in theaters now, tells the haunting story of Conley’s time in a gay conversion therapy camp. We talked about how Joel got involved in the project, the importance of representation, finding LGBTQ individuals
