Sean Baker – From the Fourth Row!

November 6, 2025

Miami Film Festival GEMS 2025 Capsule Reviews

Nouvelle Vague Directed by Richard Linklater Starring Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, and Audry Dullin Netflix Nouvelle Vague is a love letter to the French New Wave and to Jean-Luc Godard. It shows how much Richard Linklater loves this genre and… Continue reading

September 16, 2025

[TIFF 50] Capsule Reviews Pt 1: Homebound, Left-Handed Girl, A Useful Ghost, The Presidents’s Cake, And The Last One For The Road

By Kyle Flynn A Useful Ghost: A film that works much better conceptually and in form than it does in execution. The initial premise of the idea of a woman, who is a wife and a mother, but most importantly,… Continue reading

December 31, 2024

Kyle Flynn’s Top 10 of 2024

By Kyle Flynn Note I have not seen many critically acclaimed films, but one or more of them could have made this list: The Room Next Door dir. Pedro Almodovar, Nickel Boys dir. RaMell Ross, Red Rooms dir. Pascal Plante,… Continue reading

December 30, 2024

My Top 10 Films of 2024, Plus Honorable Mentions

By Dan Skip Allen My Honorable Mentions In No Particular Order: Nickel Boys, Tuesday, The Piano Lesson, Jim Henson: Idea Man, Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, September 5, Furiosa: A Mad Max Story, Will &… Continue reading

November 2, 2024

Anora Review- A Career Achievement For Sean Baker With A Breakout Performance From Mikey Madison

Sean Baker is an indie director who has chosen to make films about the underrepresented people of America. Such as transgender prostitutes, porn stars, or those that live exclusively in hotels because they can’t afford a better place to live.… Continue reading

December 22, 2021

Red Rocket Review

Sean Baker has had a nice career for himself. He’s done it the hard way, though, doing low-budget indie films like Tangerine and The Florida Project. Willem Dafoe was nominated for best supporting actor for The Florida Project. His latest, another indie film, is… Continue reading