Television Event (2020)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage [...]
Author Archive: Jerry Roberts
Jerry Roberts is a film critic and operator of two websites, Armchair Cinema and Armchair Oscars.
John and the Hole (2020)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage of the films screened at Birmingham Alabama’s 23rd Annual Sidewalk Film Festival] John and the Hole is a movie with a lot of questions that need to be answered. Yet, I’m afraid that when the story is finally concluded, the answers don’t present themselves. Here is a […]
Carterland (2021)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage of the films screened at Birmingham Alabama’s 23rd Annual Sidewalk Film Festival] Was Jimmy Carter a maligned genius? History’s greatest monster? Or was he merely a functionary who occupied the Oval Office and made no impact whatsoever? The very strange contrast to the public image of Jimmy […]
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage of the films screened at Birmingham Alabama’s 23rd Annual Sidewalk Film Festival] Walking into the new documentary Kubrick by Kubrick, it was hard not to be cynical. I mean, what can the movie show me that I haven’t already seen before? After in-depth studies of Stanley Kubrick’s […]
Ema (2019)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage of the films screened at Birmingham Alabama’s 23rd Annual Sidewalk Film Festival] Pablo Larraine’s Ema opens with one of the most striking images that I can recall. It’s nighttime on an empty street and we are looking at a stoplight on fire. I hoped and prayed that […]
We Need To Do Something (2021)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage of the films screened at Birmingham Alabama’s 23rd Annual Sidewalk Film Festival] Oh yes! We need to do something all right. We need to teach Max Booth III how to write a damn screenplay! His work here is a prime example of how to screw up a […]
The Capote Tapes (2019)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage of the films screened at Birmingham Alabama’s 23rd Annual Sidewalk Film Festival] Truman Capote was a jerk to his friends. At least, that is the message that I took away from the new documentary The Capote Tapes which traces the life of one of the most famous […]
Ailey (2021)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage of the films screened at Birmingham Alabama’s 23rd Annual Sidewalk Film Festival] I’ll admit, I am always at a distance when it comes to ballet. I know that I am suppose to pull my own interpretation into the routine to unlock the message that the dancer is […]
Whirlybird (2020)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage of the films screened at Birmingham Alabama’s 23rd Annual Sidewalk Film Festival] Previous to seeing Matt Yoba’s documentary Whirlybird, I only knew Bob Tur as that guy who filmed O.J.’s infamous chase down the L.A. Freeway in his white Ford Broncho. That’s a pretty lofty bit of […]
