My Favorite Movies: The Original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)
It is nearly impossible to see this as [...]
Starring Jerry as Himself
When you find something that you love, you tend to given in to the temptation to want to become a connoisseur. That’s kind of how I feel about documentaries, possibly my favorite genre. I could watch an entire marathon of documentaries and, in fact, at this year’s Sidewalk Film Festival, I gave an entire day […]
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. […]
Lady Parts (2024)
As Nancy Boyd’s Lady Parts was getting under way, I felt more than a bit uncomfortable. I’m a 52 year-old man and this is a comedy that begins with the information that the film’s protagonist is experiencing severe vaginal pain. And, because this is a comedy, there is a boatload of jokes that come at […]
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 […]
Trap (2024)
I walk into an M. Night Shyamalan movie with a certain set of expectations, not the least of which is that no matter how astonishingly stupid his plot twists turn out to be, the movie will have, at the very least, a certain level of style. He’s a good filmmaker on a technical level. He […]
The Best Picture Winners, Part 4: Cimarron (1930-31)
It’s a forgotten western that beat ‘City Lights’, ‘Dracula’, ‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Front Page’, ‘Morocco’, ‘The Public Enemy’ and ‘Little Caesar’ to a Best Picture prize, but history would have the last laugh.
Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)
It’s a team-up that only one wants to be a team-up. Can they ever get along?!
Twisters (2024)
Twisters isn’t exactly a sequel to Jan de Bont’s beloved 1996 tornado spectacle, its more of a remake-quel with, again, impressive visual effects and eardrum-rattling sound design placed around the story of a bunch of thrill-seeking hillbilly scientists who are about as deep as the puddle in your driveway. It gives you what you want, […]
