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They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Documentary
God + Country (2024)
I have been very quick to knock any film for having a preaching-to-the-choir narrative, whether it is on the right or the left. It’s hard to both-sides an issue anymore and keep the public’s attention. Everyone, it seems, wants to hear what they want to hear. The struggle comes in making that narrative at least […]
Vishniac (2024)
It is a little hard to walk into a documentary about The Holocaust anymore and not wonder what the latest entry is bringing to the conversation. Holocaust documentaries are a crowded field; essential but crowded. For me, the most successful are those that don’t cover the same ground. The focus on the individual is not […]
A Disturbance in the Force (2023)
This review is part of my coverage of The 25th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival It has been said that “The Star Wars Holiday Special” is the holy grail of bad television.I’ve seen it many times and, personally, I consider it closer to The Ark of the Covenant. Amid the most rabid fans of Star Wars […]
Lynch/Oz (2023)
It is reasonable to assume that you could take just about any popular director and apply some connection to The Wizard of Oz, particularly if they are known as a stylist. But no one would better fit that motif than David Lynch whose films are surreal fantasies packed in with disturbing imagery and an Oz-like […]
Birth\Rebirth (2023)
About halfway through the horror-thriller Birth/Rebirth, I knew that I wanted to shake the hand of writer/director Laura Moss and her co-screenwriter Brenden O’Brien, not because I thought that I was seeing any kind of a masterpiece, but because it was nice to finally see at least one new horror movie that wasn’t lazy or […]
Nathan-ism (2023)
Nathan Hilu is an artist in his early 90s who sits hunched over his drawing pad switching between markers and crayons like a child with busy mind. He talks incessantly, but what he has to say is fascinating. Nathan was, in his youth, given a specific task by the United States Army, to act as […]
