Vishniac (video review)
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Tag: 3-and-a-half
Revoir Paris (2023)
The other day my local news reported a memorial for a mass shooting. I asked my wife a startling question, “Which mass shooting are they talking about?” She didn’t know. There have been so many lately that I can’t tell one from another. It is startling to think that they have become part of our […]
Creed III (2023)
My nerves jangle every time a new extension of the Rocky series comes around. Will this be the one to kill the series? I have seen it happen before – Rocky IV! Rocky V! When will it run out of energy? Fortunately, ever since Stallone decided to bring the series back down to Earth with […]
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #5: De Palma (2015)
Brian De Palma was one of the pillars of the New Hollywood that flourished in the late 60s and early 70s, the time when the studio system was breaking down along with the production code. The moviegoing public was getting bored with the dusty old product that the Hollywood elders were pumping out and so […]
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #2: Other People (2016)
Other People opens with a scene that I won’t soon forget. A family, at the worst moment in their lives gathers around the bed of the family matriarch who has just passed on after a long and lingering battle with cancer. In the midst of their sorrow the dearly departed gets a message on the […]
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #1: Little Men (2016)
Attending The Sidewalk Film Festival this year was not only the chance to attend a spectacular event, but it was also a chance to catch up on great films away from the multiplex tentpole movies that are souring the American market. For two days I was able to enjoy a great many documentaries and independents […]
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
Batman: The Killing Joke clears up the most aggravating problem that I have with the latest glut of superhero movies – the producers always seem afraid to let their characters be characters. As much as I’ve praised the recent spate of Marvel movies, I must admit that underneath my admiration there always rests a tiny […]
The Neon Demon (2016)
“She’s a diamond among a sea of glass,” says a fashion designer of the pretty but not outrageously remarkable ingénue who has just arrived in L.A. to be part of its haughty fashion scene. Her name is Jesse and she stands out yet it is hard at first to figure out why. The body isn’t remarkable, […]
Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2016)
Not long ago, I gave myself the singular mission of sitting down to watch every Spielberg-directed film in chronological order from 1971’s Duel right up through the 2015 Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies. It was a month-long project that, aside from watching the evolution of one of the greatest American filmmakers, was a chance […]
