Interview: ‘Mucho Mucho Amor’ directors Kareem Tabsch and Cristina Costantini on the marvel of Latinx icon Walter Mercado
Filmmakers Kareem Tabsch, Cristina Costantini and producer Alex Fumero didn’t know each other before making their new Sundance hit, and newly arriving Netflix documentary, Mucho... Read More
Joshua Encinias
Joshua is an entertainment journalist with bylines at The Film Stage, Out Magazine, Indiewire, and The Playlist. He is based in New York City and is a voting member of GALECA, The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.
Film Review: Jon Stewart’s spoof of political elites is simply ‘Irresistible’
Jon Stewart’s (Rose Water, The Daily Show) new film Irresistible proposes something radical in the midst of national calls for dismantling the police and by... Read More
Interview: ‘Capone’ director Josh Trank is finally able to take everything in stride
Josh Trank (Chronicle, Fantastic Four) tells us he’s not the guy he’s made out to be in the press. “I think one thing that really... Read More
Film Review: ‘Capone’ is a flaming pile of shit
Outside of Shakespeare, there are three recurring characters in the history of cinema: Australia’s Ned Kelly, America’s Al Capone and world cinema’s auteurs. In the... Read More
Interview: George MacKay, breakout star of ‘1917’ and ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’
Up and coming actor George MacKay played a U.K. queer activist in Pride, a bohemian son in Captain Fantastic, and Lance Corporal Schofield in last... Read More
Sundance Review: Despite good performances ‘The Glorias’ can’t liberate itself from convention
The Glorias, directed by Julie Taymor based on the book “My Life on the Road” by Gloria Steinem, shows the confluence of “Glorias” who powered... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ plays like an awards season cast-off
Not even half a dozen Oscar winners and nominees can save a story that manages to be both formulaic and convoluted “It’s just a hard... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘Downhill’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell soar in high altitude comedy
Searchlight Pictures is lucky the first movie released under their new name exceeds expectations because a title like Downhill is ripe for puns. Directors Nat... Read More
Sundance Review: Miranda July’s ‘Kajillionaire’ exists between the mundane and the profound
If you want to understand Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) in Miranda July’s new film Kajillionaire, you have to know that July’s parents... Read More
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