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The Disclaimer Standard disclaimer: All prices are taken from the websites of each chain, or from their printed Sunday advertisements. All prices are subject to change by each chain. Prices and inventory in-store may or may not match the website price. I, obviously, cannot include EVERY title released in a given week in the RoundUp. The titles included are those that I am interested in…as well as those which I consider will be of interest to a majority of consumers (and sometimes I’l...

Test Pattern writer/director Shatara Michelle Ford (Courtesy of Kino Lorber) As many of us hold onto our favorite movie theatre memories in hopes that theyll become a safe space again sometime soon, writer/director Shatara Michelle Ford has different moments in mind. "I was always one of, like, two other dark-skinned people. And there were several occasions when I would go see a film and I would be singled out to see if I was a paying customer," they said of their experiences at the Alamo South...

¬ with JAX This video might take a few seconds to load. Please squint for best results :). The results of this experiment are not exactly close to my target as you can see, but I thought it was worth a blog post anyway. There was this rough idea I’ve been thinking about in Conway’s Game of Life for a really long time. I wonder if its possible to use some kind of stochastic algorithm that gives you an initial state which forms legible text after many cycles.— yakinavault (@yakinavault) Au...

'Test Pattern' director Shatara Michelle Ford talks with PopMatters about putting everyday fear into film.

Test Pattern Is a Master Class in Body Language Shatara Michelle Fords debut is stunning in its examination of blackness, whiteness, gender, and class K. Austin Collins, provided by Feb. 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail “I never ask people, just casually, for their phone number,” Evan (Will Brill) says. This is how he greets Renesha (Brittany S. Hall), a woman he met in a bar sometime before, whose number he’d asked for in front of her friends, whose shyness seemed, at the time, endearing. ...

Skip to main content Currently Reading New movies to stream this week: Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, Test Pattern and more Michael OSullivan and Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post Feb. 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11Ann Freedman, the former director of Knoedler Gallery, in the documentary "Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art."Melbar Entertainment GroupShow MoreShow Less 3of11 5of11Kalbinur Rahmati in "A First Farewell."Cheng Cheng FilmsShow MoreShow Less ...

Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune By contrasting two different nights out in Austin, writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford is doing something so canny in her debut indie feature "Test Pattern." Drinks and dancing one night lead to a sweetly awkward meeting between the films main character, Renesha, and the man who will eventually become her live-in boyfriend. Much later — it could be months, it could be years, its never specified — a similar night of drinks and dancing will result in Renesha being...

New Movies to Watch This Week: Nomadland, I Care a Lot, Test Pattern Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The treasures of an extended Oscar season just keep on giving, as Venice Film Festival winner and award season favorite “Nomadland” finds its way to theaters — and Hulu subscribers. It’s a special film, about a woman (played by two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand) who pulls up stakes and travels the country by van, hitting theaters at a time when many people have bee...

A dazzling, devastating feature debut. TWITTER Shatara Michelle Fords film follows a Black woman and her white boyfriend in the aftermath of her rape. In Shatara Michelle Ford’s experimental thriller Test Pattern, light and dark are intertwined. The film is a staggeringly impressive debut, blending color, sound and story to create an intricate emotional tapestry. It begins in the moment before a sexual assault occurs. We meet our main character as she is barely conscious, the glass of wate...

You can stream Test Pattern via The Grand Illusion’s virtual screening room starting Feb. 19.