S H O W C A S E
Jessica Hinckle
Freelance Journalist & Screenwriter
United States
Freelance Journalist (of Film & Human Multitudes). Screenwriter. Playwright. Enthusiast of the Uncool. Mental Health Destigmatist. jlhinckle(@)gmail, she/her
United States
Freelance Journalist (of Film & Human Multitudes). Screenwriter. Playwright. Enthusiast of the Uncool. Mental Health Destigmatist. jlhinckle(@)gmail, she/her
S H O W C A S E
Loki , at his core, is a Shakespearean creation, gifted to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by an actor and director who practically bleed the Bard. Kenneth Brannagh has portrayed more Shakespearean characters than just about any actor breathing and Tom Hiddleston performs it as if he breathes it.
When seeking romantic cinema to round out one's Valentine's Day, you need but throw a rock in the general direction of a Walmart-style movie bin - you're bound to hit something. Romance, as a genre, has been done to death and understandably so.
Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down stands, at twenty years, as a visceral depiction of the brutal minutiae of war, regardless of the criticisms it received or the unintended impact of its timing. Nearly every war film made since has sketched its visual and sonic realities from Scott's gutting and unapologetic devotion to them.
Each year, the Library of Congress inducts 25 motion pictures into the National Film Registry, which are considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant to the story of America. Films are selected by the National Film Preservation Board from nominations made both internally and from the general public, to preserve gems from the past 120+ years worth saving.
Film criticism is a subject that I've harbored conflicting ideologies about for quite a long while, and so I've written this statement for two reasons; one begetting the other. First, and foremost, to set myself to task.
R E V I E W S
Blake Lively stars in "The Shallows." This may just be me, but when I first set eyes on the trailer for "The Shallows" I scoffed a good scoff; it seemed like an on-the-nose title for what would surely be a shallow shark-trope jump-scare film, made bearable only by a beautiful locale.
William F. Buckley, Jr. and Gore Vidal in "Best of Enemies." For our illumination, enlightenment, and consideration, Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon give us "Best of Enemies;" a superb examination of William F. Buckley, Jr., Gore Vidal, and how ABC pitted them against each other in order to save the network from impending doom.
Farzana Wahidy in the documentary "Frame by Frame." "Frame by Frame" is an elegant and symphonic documentary tribute to the empathy and integrity of the photojournalist, and it might be the most impactful documentary of my generation.