Tag: Lupita Nyong’o

  • For Our Consideration: Best Writing, Directing, and Score

    For Our Consideration: Best Writing, Directing, and Score

    The 92nd Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 9. Earlier this month, the nominations were announced. We’re running through some of the categories to acknowledge a few of our favorite unrecognized film works of 2019.   Best Director — Greta Gerwig (Little Women)     Admittedly this one is a bit obvious. It…

  • Queen of Katwe

    Queen of Katwe

    Disney’s Queen of Katwe remains within the tradition of unintentional Christian filmmaking that prefers subtle nuances and unspoken demonstrations of conviction over tired clichés, recycled tropes, wooden characters, and soap-boxy platitudes positing overly simplistic answers to the complexities of life lived in a fallen world. In veteran director Mira Nair’s vision, we see strands of…