Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Opening Birmingham Alabama’s 26th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival [...]
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Joy (2015)
There is a breaking point for most people, when the soul-crushing frenzy of everyday life brings them face to face with the inevitability that three things are possible for them: a nervous breakdown, a burst of brilliant inspiration, or the all-consuming threat that the rest of their life may become a den of mediocrity and […]
Spectre (2015)
Even with its impressive longevity, the James Bond series has always seemed to be teetering just on the edge of becoming outdated, at least in the years since Sean Connery stepped aside. The culture, the world situation, the political climate, the technological advancements and, of course, the state of cinema itself are always threatening to […]
Sicario (2015)
There’s an effective, quiet pall that hangs over every scene of Sicario, an appropriately nervous sense that we have entered into an atmosphere of death. This is refreshingly new. Movies about federal agents at war with the Mexican drug cartels have a tendency to be very slick and unafraid to get into the messier bits […]
Évocateur: The Morton Downey, Jr. Movie (2013)
I have to admit that ever since news of his death from lung cancer in 2001, I hadn’t given much thought to Morton Downey, Jr. Not to seem unkind, but truthfully, there wasn’t much to think about. Downey’s legacy in television history is so forgettable that the subsequent generation has no idea who he was. If you’ve […]
The Hangover Part III (2013)
As a comedy, The Hangover Part III is a colossal waste of time, a laugh-impaired detriment to the entire genre. As a thriller, it actually works. Let me put it this way, I was never bored by the movie when it was trying to take me on a thrill-ride. Yet, I was nearly rendered comatose […]
And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
A man walks into the office of a guidance counselor and takes a seat. The counselor advises the man that he has looked over his aptitude tests and concluded that the best position suited to him would be in accounting. “But I am an accountant,” the man says, “I have been one for the past […]
The Hangover Part II (2011)
The general critical consensus leading up to the release of The Hangover Part II is nearly identical to the mass reaction that met Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. That being, it’s the exact same movie only in a different location. Critics decry that the filmmakers had no idea how to twist or turn […]
