ABOUT Ricardo Paris
I take a toke. I stare into the thick dark of my backyard. I expel the smoke against the breeze, helping my eyes to get used to the darkness of the moonless night. The outlines of trees, the compositional sketch of my backyard, at first fuzzy, slowly begin to match the mental picture forged in…
Triple Frontier is a Netflix original movie that the platform released for streaming on March 13. A week before, Netflix had released it in select theaters. It is an action thriller starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina) and Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy). Oscar Isaac plays the role of American retired Special Forces operative…
Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, came out in 1967, before I was born. Riding the wave of sixties counterculture, the film pushed the envelope, particularly by challenging taboos about sexuality and by redefining the boundaries of just how graphic displays of violence were allowed to be in movies. It was critically…
The Eyes of Orson Welles is a documentary that premiered in May of 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival. The date for its US theatrical release was March 15 of this year. Northern Irish director, writer, and film critic Mark Cousins directed it and narrated. Cousins is perhaps most known for his 2011 TV mini-series documentary…
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead is a 2018 Netflix original documentary that tells the story behind Orson Welles’ last movie, The Other Side of The Wind. Directed by Oscar winner Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) and narrated by Alan Cumming, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead contains testimony…
Homecoming is a web series that premiered in November of 2018 on Amazon Prime Video, as part of its original programming. The origin of the show is a narrative fictional podcast created by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg. The same duo created and wrote Homecoming in its web series incarnation. Sam Esmail, of Mr. Robot…
Directed by Bing Liu, and a nominee at this year’s Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, Minding the Gap is a film that documents the tumultuous coming of age of three young men from Rockford, Illinois: Keire Johnson, Zack Mulligan, and Bing Liu himself – all three of them skateboarders. It is Liu’s first feature…
Winner, this past Sunday, of the Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Foreign Language Film, Roma was written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also won the Oscar for Best Director. It had a limited theatrical release in the United States in November of 2018. Within a month later, it started streaming on Netflix. Shot…
Co-directed by Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks, and winner, just last week, of the Grammy Award for Best Music Film, Quincy (released by Netflix in September of 2018) is a documentary about the extraordinary life of Quincy Jones, a man whose amazing artistic career spans seven decades in music, film, TV, and even printed media. The…
How does the saying go? “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” In the same spirit of trickery, some would have you believe, of racism, not that it doesn’t exist, but that it is this one thing, and one thing alone – a self-explanatory concept of sorts, that…
Created by Shawn Simmons, Wayne is a new web series, which premiered January 16 on YouTube Premium. This streaming subscription service (formerly YouTube Red, but rebranded YouTube Premium as of May of last year), started offering exclusive original content about two years ago in an effort to compete with sites like Netflix and Hulu, and…
