Arleigh Rodgers

January 27, 2025

Review: ‘Severance’ Season 2’s Triumphant Return

Do we all remember where we were when we watched the conclusion of Severance's (2022–Present) first season? For me, it was in South Dakota ar...

Arleigh Rodgers

December 23, 2024

Retrospective: ‘Little Women’ and Holiday Comforts

Little Women (1994) is one of those films I will never grow out of—from the first time I watched it until my rewatch for this article, I’ll a...

Arleigh Rodgers

December 13, 2024

Review: The Gift of Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘A Nonsense Christmas’

Jesus was a carpenter, but there’s a new vixen here for Christmas. (Well, if this is going to be a proper Sabrina Carpenter review, there has...

Arleigh Rodgers

November 28, 2024

Revisiting ‘The Babadook:’ The Faceless Silence of Jennifer Kent’s Horror Legend

Ten years have passed since Jennifer Kent’s spectacular horror film The Babadook was released. Celebrated by a limited theatrical run in Octo...

Arleigh Rodgers

November 4, 2024

NOFF 2024 Recap: Southern Films and Filmmakers Highlight New Orleans-based Program

Last week, I attended the New Orleans Film Festival in person and virtually. While the Oscar-qualifying festival boasted some high-profile fi...

Arleigh Rodgers

October 28, 2024

NOFF 2024 ‘Rebel Nun’ Review: Homecoming Screening in New Orleans Highlights Nun’s Legacy of Fighting the Death Penalty

Sister Helen Prejean has fought the death penalty for decades — but when a new documentary that screened on October 20 at the New Orleans Fil...

Arleigh Rodgers

October 23, 2024

‘Taste the Revolution’ Premieres, Nearly 25 Years After Filming, at New Orleans Film Festival

Over several days in 2001, swaths of would-be revolutionaries swarmed a borrowed estate in Utica, New York, to hold their first “World Summit...

Arleigh Rodgers

September 27, 2024

Revisiting ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’: Celebrating the Enchanting Ghibli Film’s 20th Anniversary

What do I want to tell you about Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)? I could start anywhere with the Studio Ghibli film, directed by icon Hayao Miya...

Arleigh Rodgers

September 20, 2024

‘Uglies’ Review: Late-Coming YA Adaptation Arrives at the Wrong Time

In an early scene of Uglies, directed by McG, Tally Youngblood (Joey King) stands in front of her bedroom mirror, her mouth in a hard line, h...

Arleigh Rodgers

August 20, 2024

Fifteen Years Later, ‘Coraline’ 3D Remaster is a Rich Rendering of Subtle Artistry

Coraline (2009) celebrates its 15th anniversary this week with a theatrical run, where audiences don plastic 3D glasses (rather than button e...

Arleigh Rodgers

August 6, 2024

‘Kneecap’ Review: Irish Rap Group Stands Centerstage in Ireland’s Oscars Bid

The appeal of Kneecap arrives in two bombastic waves. First, that the eponymous hip-hop group successfully achieves revolutionary and musical...

Arleigh Rodgers

July 30, 2024

'The Beast' Review: A Slow-Burning Sci-Fi To Make Criterion Debut in August

Let’s suppose, for argument’s sake, that one can distill one’s life to a series of individual choices. Mundane ones, to start: today’s outfit...

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