My Favorite Movies: The Original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)
It is nearly impossible to see this as [...]
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Nosferatu (2024)
So, yes, I spent part of my Christmas Day 2024 watching a 10th century vampire wreak havoc and disease on the people of a rising metro area of Germany circa 1836. In that, I reflected that I was thankful for the little things that I have here in the good old 21st century, you know, […]
My Favorite Movies: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Martin Scorsese took an approach to the mindset of Jesus Christ that few other filmmakers have dared: to examine the most famous, and yet oddly illusive, person in all of human history, a man that we have been taught from childhood was both God and man and examine how Jesus must have felt about his […]
Public Defender (2024)
It is not a job that anyone would be angling for. Who wants to be the public defender fighting for those going to trial for their involvement in the January 6th riots. It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it. And, in Andrea Kalin’s documentary Public Defender that person is Heather Shaner, a […]
The Herricanes (2024)
Did you know there was a women’s football league in the laye 70s that played for four seasons? Neither did I, but given the tow-hold that women have been struggling to gain in every male-dominated field since the women’s movement of the early 1970s, it didn’t surprise me. But yes, just like A League of their […]
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. […]
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, […]
The Best Picture Winners Part 3: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30)
The most devastating war of the 20th century inspired a lot of terrible things, but it did inspire one of the greatest and most enduring anti-war statements ever put on film. But, is it truly anti-war? [CLICK ON THE VIDEO]
