Author: Courtney Young
For Your Consideration: I, Tonya, Best Picture
America…they want someone to love, but they want someone to hate.” All she wanted to do was be the best figure skater in America. But…
Welcome to The Bling Ring Generation
Originally published over at On The Screen Reviews Before Hollywood discovered the benefit of locking their doors when leaving town, a group of gutsy, celebrity-obsessed…
Lost in Translation: Visual Appreciation
“I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be.” In her sophomore smash hit, Sofia Coppola introduces us to a familiar world within the realms…
Christmas Movies: Scrooged
Scrooged is undoubtedly my favorite Christmas movie of all time – it’s a tale as old as time without the gimmicks or seriousness. It’s got one…
Review: Moonlight is Magnificent
“At some point you’ve got to decide for yourself who you gonna be. And let nobody make that decision.” Moonlight brings the internal…
On The Screen Reviews: The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation is a great made for TV movie. There. I said it. Nation is being billed as an important movie —…
Beyond the Art: The Birth of a Nation
Nearly everyone has heard of The Birth of a Nation. Not D.W. Griffith’s groundbreaking, disturbing 1916 silent featuring the Ku Klux Klan, with a narrative…