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Don’t sleep on ‘Is God Is,’ a primal scream of a movie inspired by Westerns and Greek tragedy

Aleshea Harris wrote “Is God Is” with the assumption that it would never be performed as a play, let alone turned into a movie. It was simply a story she needed to get onto the page: A tale of rage and revenge, an ancient Greek tragedy melded with Spaghetti Western tropes centered on contemporary Black women, twins, on an epic, violent journey to find the father who wronged them. She even rewatched Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” while she was writing. “I’ve endured so many narratives in which Black women, they’re just sort of downtrodden victims, you know? They endure, ...

The breathless Korean sci-fi monster movie ‘Hope’ leaves the Cannes Film Festival floored

CANNES, France (AP) — Sprawling action movies with aliens do not generally compete for the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. But Na Hong-jin’s “Hope” is not your average science fiction. Few movies were more anticipated in Cannes. It’s been 10 years since Na’s last film, the well-regarded 2016 thriller “The Wailing.” While some of Na’s fellow Korean genre masters, like Bong Joon Ho, have found global renown, for many cinephiles, Na is overdue for the kind of global introduction a Cannes premiere provides. But that doesn’t mean that Na, a few hours before ...

Stephen Colbert’s long goodbye is coming to an end, leaving a void

NEW YORK (AP) — On his very first time hosting “The Late Show” back in 2015, Stephen Colbert ripped into Donald Trump while gorging on Oreos, likening his inability to resist the cookies to his inability to resist going after the then-presidential candidate. “Look, you don’t own ...

Songs on the Wind: May

Lately, I’ve been listening to a bunch of new-this-year music. As such, I’m going to give four recommendations from stuff I’ve been enjoying from albums that came out recently, and then I’ll close out with a few other things from different genres, so if you aren’t interested in metal, skip to the end! Am Fear Liath Mor — Cnoc An Tursa This is a Scottish band from Falkirk — their name, Cnoc An Tursa, translates to Hill of the Standing Stone. The album this song is from, A Cry for the Slain, features a heavy emphasis on Scottish mythology and folk figures. There’s a lot ...