SUMMER OF STARS #21: Jodie Foster
by Ashley Jane Davis, Staff Writer
I will never forget the day Britt H. brought a VHS tape of Candleshoe into Ms. Mueller’s grade one class in 1991.
by Ashley Jane Davis, Staff Writer
I will never forget the day Britt H. brought a VHS tape of Candleshoe into Ms. Mueller’s grade one class in 1991.
by Jaime Davis, Staff Writer, The Fixer
How often do we think about the people working at our local markets?
by Emily Maesar, Staff Writer
So, what is the cultural legacy of The Silence of the Lambs 30 years on? Well, despite all the continued praise, it’s a bit complicated.
Written and directed by Drew Pearce (2018)
Starring Jodie Foster, Sofia Boutella, Sterling K. Brown, and Dave Bautista
Running time 1 hour 34 minutes
MPAA rating: R
by Deborah Krieger
Hotel Artemis would be a perfect double bill with a film like Snowpiercer. They’re both small-budget independent dystopian action films with impressively star-filled casts, wholly devoted to playing into their genres and undergirded with a sense of class consciousness. Snowpiercer is much more literal in its condemnation of economic oppression, where the surviving world’s poor are left to languish in filthy conditions at the back of the perpetually-moving train, their children stolen by the obscenely wealthy to make their lifestyles aboard the train possible. Hotel Artemis’ address of class inequality is a little more buried beneath the surface; or, rather, its decision to place the corporation controlling Los Angeles’s water supply in the role of the villain, rather than the individuals on the train in Snowpiercer, comes across as more subtle.
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