Movies: Jori Phillips

The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her...

Stepping straight out of an urban rendition of "Romy and Michelle", Donna and Ally are two black sex workers who have transformed the trials of a 12-year run from the law into a relentless pursuit of legendary status. Their world, encapsulated in raw...