Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
Drama
A Song for Imogene (2024)
Sometimes you can just feel a movie before it really gets underway. You can feel the tone that its going for and the world that its characters inhabit. It reminds me how generic most movies are, taking place in drab, non-descript locations where hardly any life is taking place outside of the characters central problems. […]
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Opening Birmingham Alabama’s 26th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival was Titus Kapher’s Exhibiting Forgiveness, a hard-hitting drama about a frustrated artist Tarrell (Moonlight’s Andre Holland) trying to create a family unit for his wife and young son that was missing his own youth. That exhibit comes back in full force when his long-lost father La’Ron falls […]
They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those filmmakers whose filmography would be the envy of any amount of unsuccessful but still aspiring young directors struggling to make a name for themselves. His best-known work is 1992’s BELLE EPOQUE which brought him the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. I admire that film a great deal, […]
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
It is a fact that the two most destructive forces of mankind are greed and racism. These two things have born more chaos and death than any disease or famine that you can name. And yes, It has been, whether we like it or not, part of the make-up of American history almost from the […]
Blog: Killing Connie Casserole: How Stonewall Vilified ‘The Boys in the Band’
Between 1968, when playwright Mart Crowley wrote his off-Broadway hit “The Boys and the Band” and 1970, when William Friedkin turned it into a movie, there were the Stonewall riots. For the health and well-being of the movie version, this was the worst thing that could have happened. In June of 1969, decades of abuse, […]
Afire (2023)
Here in the third week of July, when fully 90% of the moviegoing public is going to give their love to The Barbenheimer (I did), it’s unlikely that any will pass them up for a quiet character-study from Germany about a potential loser and his friends trapped by a wild fire. This is the film […]
Oppenheimer (2023)
The first time that I ever saw J. Robert Oppenheimer was in the famous black and white film in which he recounted the first test of the atomic bomb. It is the moment we all remember – his whole face in the camera, recalling the reaction to the test by the scientists and military, called […]
Sound of Freedom (2023)
I arrived at Sound of Freedom, the latest Christian booster drama a few weeks ago with a certain expectation wrapped in negativity that comes with experience. Since the boom of this religious-based genre began in the middle part of the last decade, I have put myself through a fair amount of these films, and my […]
