Culture writing film essays + tv essays + music journalism LETTERBOXDEAST COAST REPORTER Removing the Wool - Killer of Sheep, LA Rebellion, Watts Storytelling (Charles Burnett) E-Girl Detectives - Seeking Mavis Beacon (Jazmin Jones + Olivia McKayla Ross) Best of Blackstar 2024 Prison Drama - Sing Sing (Colman Domingo) Summer Daze - Janet Planet (Annie Baker) Bad Influence - John Waters Retrospective Braiding into Being - Strands of Humanity in Origin (Ava DuVernay) Best of Sundance 2024 Sundance 2024 - Curtain Raiser Loveable Grump - American Fiction (Cord Jefferson and Jeffrey Wright) Float to the Surface - All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson) A Marriage on Ice - Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet and Sandra Hüller) Testing, Testing - Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, and Emily Blunt) Mother Courage - Earth Mama (Savannah Leaf, Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, and Doechii) Redemption Song- Chevalier (Stephen Williams, Stefani Robinson, Kelvin Harrison Jr.) Ode to Harlem - A Thousand and One (A.V Rockwell) Sharing the Load - Milisuthando (Milisuthando Bongela) Bearing Witness - Saint Omer (Alice Diop, Guslagie Malanda) Asking, Telling - The Inspection (Elegance Bratton) Universal Child - Till (Danielle Deadwyler, Chinonye Chukwu)
