They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for January, 2023
1980: A Look Back
I was thrilled once again to be a guest on The Online Movie Show with Phil Hall discussing the movie year of 1980.
The 95th Academy Award Nominees: ‘All That Breathes’
Nominations:• Best Documentary Feature Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes is a deeply moving and deeply introspective documentary that uses the poetry of observation to convey the information that the natural world is being strangled by the reckless impulses of mankind. This, of course, is nothing new, but the movie doesn’t shame us. It doesn’t rub […]
The 95th Academy Award nominees: Eo
I learned early in my education about film that it is a medium of perspectives. Oddly enough, Hollywood is only coming around to the idea of diverse peoples and their culture, I expected that, but what I didn’t expect was a film like Eo which not only leans on perspective and personal experience but does so […]
House Party (2023)
It’s a new year – 2023. The holiday season has ended, the parties are over, and the guests have all gone home. The bad news is that the new remake of the 90s sleeper hit House Party is not going to keep the party going. This is one of those movies that defines an empty-house January release. […]
