They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for March, 2022
Mini Episode: Our reactions to The 94th Academy Awards . . . or He Who Gets Slapped!
This episode (recorded only two days after the Oscar telecast) discusses the big winners and the big losers….and that thing that happened that everyone else has been talking about. It’s The slap-happy OSCARS!!!!!! #academyawards #oscars #oscar #movie #movies #hollywood #cinema #film #actor #goldenglobes #director #actress #s #art #academyaward #academy #acting #celebrity #films #netflix #producer #cinematography […]
The 94th Academy Awards (or . . . He Who Gets Slapped) – an editorial
NOTE: This essay is purely an editorial.] Under normal circumstances, Tuesday after the Oscars is the moment when the award show starts to slip from our minds. The Facebook memes slow down and the inevitable volley of whining complaining over the show’s length, exclusivity, misdirection, lack of production and relevance slowly begin to turn to […]
The Pod Bay Doors Movie Podcast, Mini Episode: Our Reactions to The 94th Academy Awards (or . . . He Who Gets Slapped)
This episode (recorded only two days after the Oscar telecast) discusses the big winners and the big losers….and that thing that happened that everyone else has been talking about. It’s The OSCARS!!!!!!
How to Survive a Pandemic (2022)
As a frequent visitor to the trough of the documentary format, I knew instinctively as the pandemic was ringing alarm bells early in 2020, that this would be the landscape of the genre for the next few years, maybe decades. There is no end to the stream of documentaries dealing with this scourge but what […]
The Automat (2022)
A smart documentarian could do themselves no better favor then to gateway their work with an interview with Mel Brooks, and indeed The Automat opens with a narration by the comedy legend that sets off a subject that he knows all too well. In fact, he not only gives his thoughts and ruminations, but Brooks […]
Win a Trip to Browntown (2022)
My dear reader, I come before you with a confession. I watched comedy Win a Trip to Browntown! . . . but I never finished it. I couldn’t. Life is short. I’ve got things to do. I stopped at about a buck-five with still 28 minutes left on the running time but there was a […]
Topside (2022)
Topside opens in a very specific place with some very specific people. They are New York’s homeless and they have built themselves a make-shift home in the dark abandoned subway tunnels using whatever old debris they could find – lamps, mattresses, plywood, doors. We meet some of the people who live there, specifically a junkie […]
