A south-of-the-border crime drug epic unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, in which illegal trafficking poisons an indigenous Wayuu clan in a based-on-true-events story by an Award-winning Colombian duo. Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s Colombian crime epic is like an indigenous version of The Godfather, revealing the slow and steady destruction of a closely-knit indigenous family…
Pete Davidson shines as a charming lout in this buddy comedy in a coming-of-age movie with lots of laughs and a huge heart. Pete Davidson has had quite the year. From break out performances in “SNL” sketches to controversial stand-up routines and let’s not forget his summer romance engagement to pop diva Ariana Grande that…
Just six months after her Grammy Award winning album “Sweetener,” Grande unpicks her recent emotional devastation – embracing her inner mean girl and finds her own voice in the process. “Been through some bad shit/I should be a sad bitch/ Who woulda thought it’d turn me to a savage?” sings pop diva Ariana Grande to…
A thoughtful Pakistani-American Muslim girl nearing high-school graduation grapples with sexuality, faith and tradition in this feature directorial debut. A genre that is currently booming in the independent film scene is coming-of-age stories (see “Eighth Grade,” “Lady Bird,” or even “Columbus”), but most of the time, they revolve around the lives of white, heterosexual characters…
Zac Efron gives an eerie, on-target performance as Ted Bundy in a drama that shines light on the victim’s perspectives and digs into why his story still haunts us. The story of Ted Bundy is one of the most famous and prolific stories of an American serial killer in modern history. He was the ultimate…
A dazzling feature debut by directing duo Samantha Buck & Marie Schlingmann that stars Anna Margaret Hollyman as famed 1920s evangelist Sister Aimee who does some devilish acts to get right with God in this artistic interpretation of a real event. Have you ever found yourself asking “what would happen if you threw ‘Florence Foster…
With the start of a New Year means the start of a new Awards Season, featuring fantastic performances and works of art by actors, directors and artists across the board in films across many genres. JAKKAWI predicts who will win (and should win) in each category presented at this year’s Golden Globe Awards presented by…
Katy Perry is one of my mainstream pop addictions and I’ve eagerly waited almost four years for her fourth studio album (fifth if you count her eponymous debut album Katy Hudson which was released under her birth name Katy Hudson) since the release of Prism in October of 2013. What captivated me most with Miss Perry were her eye-popping…
Our Lorde and Savior (and critique of all things bourgeois) is back. I am not much of a clubber or hard-core raver and in fact that’s what captivated me most with Lorde’s debut album Pure Heroine back in 2013. She became the voice for those weekend rager-haters and not a fan of the “boujee bourgeoisie”. With an…