Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Opening Birmingham Alabama’s 26th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival [...]
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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, […]
Madame Web (2024)
Madame Web takes place in 2003, which is fitting because feels like it was MADE in 2003! You know, before Disney really started to build the MCU and every superhero movie was trying and, in most cases, failing to be Tim Burton’s Batman? This movie feels like that on a junior league level. The palette […]
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 […]
Amanda (2022)
Okay, here’s my conflict. I am the guy who always howling at the moon over my desire to see something new and different. I want to see the work a filmmaker with a particular vision, a particular style that feels new and inventive. That perfectly describes Italian director Carolina Cavalli, but I am conflicted over […]
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
I have dozens of logistical questions with regards to Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – but for the sake of time and my sanity – I’ll just focus on one: Why does the robot-gorilla have hair? I mean, 98% of his body is metal plating, but he has what looks like a crop top – […]
I, Tonya (2017)
I don’t really give much thought to Tonya Harding. To be honest, there really isn’t much to think about. I know the bare bones of her 25 year-old scandal which I hardly paid attention to even then. I know she was tossed out of the United States Figure Skating Association over an assault on Nancy […]
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
I don’t know one thing about the sport of tennis. In fact, I really don’t know much about sports at all. I’m not averse to it; it just doesn’t really interest me. That’s because I’m less interested in the game than I am in the people involved (with that, I find ESPN’s “30 for 30” […]
The 2017 Sidewalk Film Festival reviews: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
Over the weekend of August 25 through 27, I had the pleasure of attending The 19th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival in my home of Birmingham, Alabama. Over the next two weeks I’ll be taking an intimate look at each of the 11 films that I saw. If we take Elsa Dorfman completely at first glance, […]
