Grackles review Valley Girl  Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg  Reviewed by Kat Moore and Kendra L. Vanderlip  The totally tubular 80’s cult classic Valley Girl (1983) was directed by [...]

Grackles review Portrait of a Lady on Fire  Directed by Céline Sciamma Reviewed by Kat Moore and Tiffany Isaacs  Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the fourth feature [...]

Grackles review The Invisible Man Directed by Leigh Whannell Reviewed by Scott Ray and Charlie Riccardelli  Writer/director Leigh Whannell first made his mark on the horror genre back in [...]

Grackles review Waves Directed by Trey Edward Shults Reviewed by Scott Ray and Charlie Riccardelli  Waves is the third film by writer/director Trey Edward Shults. Shults, a young filmmaker [...]

Inside the Castle, 2019. 454 pages. Reviewed by J S Khan As suggested by its title, Peripatet meanders about, considering as it does the life and work of not [...]

Sarabande Books, 2019. 91 pages. Reviewed by Aza Pace In selecting Chad Bennett’s debut poetry collection for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Ocean Vuong calls the book [...]

Grackles review 1917 Directed by Sam Mendes Reviewed by Scott Ray and Charlie Riccardelli  World War I, also known as the Great War, may as well be a forgotten [...]

Grackles review Little Women Directed by Greta Gerwig Reviewed by Colleen Mayo and Kat Moore Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film adaptation of the classic period novel by Louisa May Alcott [...]

Grackles review Uncut Gems Directed by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie  Reviewed by Scott Ray and Charlie Riccardelli  Josh and Benny Safdie (better known as the Safdie Brothers), a [...]

Grackles review CATS Directed by Tom Hooper Reviewed by Mandy L. Hughes and Brian Clifton CATS is about, you guessed it, cats. Tom Hooper adopted the Broadway musical for [...]

John Hopkins University Press, 2019. 173 pages. Reviewed by Rebecca Bernard Claire Jimenez’s debut collection, Staten Island Stories, skillfully balances the global with the local, the particularity of place, [...]

Grackles review Marriage Story Directed by Noah Baumbach  Reviewed by Charlie Riccardelli and Rebecca Bernard In 2005, writer/director Noah Baumbach cemented his place as a chronicler of raw dramedies [...]