04/20/2018

Today’s movie is “I Am Not An Easy Man” (2018), the Netflix Original French comedy directed by Eleonore Pourriat and written in collaboration with Ariane Fert, based on Pourriat’s short “Oppressed Majority”. The film follows Damien (Vincent Elbaz), a chauvinistic man who wakes up in a world where women individually and systemically oppress men, falling for Alexandra (Marie-Sophie Ferdane), a popular author looking to use Damien as material. Let me start by saying that I enjoyed this film, but I

04/19/2018

Today’s movie is “Cartel Land” (2015), directed by Matthew Heinemen, a documentary about two vigilante groups ostensibly fighting back against the cartels. The documentary was shot on the front lines of the fight, sometimes in live fire situations, and with grim consequences. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. I have different thoughts about the two groups. Arizona Border Recon is a group of self-appointed border observers, who share a belief that the drug

04/18/2018

Today’s movie is “The 4th Company” (2016), the Netflix original crime thriller written by Mitzi Vanessa Arreaola and directed in collaboration with Amir Galván Cervera. The film follows Zambrano (Adrian Ladron), a juvenile offender sentenced to Santa Martha prison in 1970s Mexico, who joins the prison American football team and becomes part of the prison’s fourth company, a combination internal enforcement and external criminal organization run by Mexico City’s chief of police. “The 4thCompany”