TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 Review: Celebrating Film Legacies
By Lorna Miller |
My eleventh opportunity to cover the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood provided an opportunity to enjoy some old favorites ...
Read More Make Believe Seattle 2023 Review: Smoking Causes Coughing
By Steve Geise |
If you’re in the Seattle area this weekend, Make Believe Seattle Film Festival is making its debut with a fascinating ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Interview: Producer Annalise Davis Talks Fireworks
By David Wangberg |
Producer Annalise Davis has been in the film industry for nearly 20 years, having worked on films such as The ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: The DOC
By Darcy Staniforth |
In the rap and hip hop world, it's one thing to have confidence and ego about being one of the ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Fireworks
By David Wangberg |
There have been many films and television series that involve top-level characters carrying out orders to bomb a certain location ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine
By Davy |
Coming out of the closet for in one of the most difficult things that anyone in LGBTQ community ever has ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Katrina Babies
By David Wangberg |
There is no way that someone could direct a documentary such as Katrina Babies the same way if they had ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: A Rising Fury
By David Wangberg |
Starting with the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2013, and leading up to the current invasion from Russia, A Rising ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: The Visitor
By David Wangberg |
After spending time in jail for “alcoholism,” Humberto (Enrique Araoz) is three years sober and ready to restart his life ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
By David Wangberg |
Joseph Chambers (Clayne Crawford), or “Joe” as some call him, is not the kind of man you would think could ...
Read More Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Review: A Love Song
By Davy |
An unorthodox romance set in a beautiful, vast Colorado backdrop is at the center of Max Walker-Silverman's beguilingly unassuming directorial ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: A Love Song
By David Wangberg |
Dale Dickey has been acting for nearly 30 years, and chances are, you’ve seen her in at least one movie ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Butterfly in the Sky
By David Wangberg |
The opening scene of Butterfly in the Sky centers LeVar Burton in front of a huge library filled with books. ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Wes Schlagenhauf is Dying
By Davy |
If you said that there are too many pandemic comedies existing now, I would have to agree with you. However, ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Out of Order
By Davy |
Sometimes the big city can bring a lot of you, including your search of love after heartbreak. This appealingly familiar ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
By Gordon S. Miller |
Produced and directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story documents the love ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Nude Tuesday
By Davy |
I've never been married nor have been in a relationship, but I have seen enough on film and TV to ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Peace in the Valley
By David Wangberg |
It’s a sad coincidence that Tyler Riggs’ Peace in the Valley premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival as the nation ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Rounding
By David Wangberg |
Alex Thompson’s Rounding is classified as a psychological thriller, and it has the necessary elements to categorize it as such. ...
Read More Tribeca 2022 Review: Closing Dynasty
By Davy |
Written and directed by Lloyd Lee Choi Closing Dynasty is a quietly humanistic short portrait of how we really do ...
Read More TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Review: Day Three
By Lorna Miller |
[Read Lorna's Day One and Two coverage of TCMFF 2022] Three on a Match (1932) was one of the most ...
Read More TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Review: Day One and Two
By Lorna Miller |
After a three-year hiatus, the TCM Classic Film Festival returned to an in-person event in Hollywood over four days and ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
By David Wangberg |
As Walt Disney once said, “It all started with a mouse.” Now, that mouse, whose name you are probably spelling ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Cha Cha Real Smooth
By David Wangberg |
Coming-of-age movies have a tendency to be huge successes in the festival circuit, and most wind up becoming popular with ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: In the Court of the Crimson King
By Kent Conrad |
I've seen King Crimson once in concert. It was at the Greek in Los Angeles in 2017, and I went ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
By David Wangberg |
The opening minutes of Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off captivate the viewer with footage of a present-day Hawk, ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks Review
By Davy |
If you're a huge fan of the classic sketch comedy show The Kids of the Hall, you instantly recognize the ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Master
By Davy |
Let's face it, Jordan Peele's Get Out (2018) continues to be the horror gold standard of films about racism and ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: The Cow
By David Wangberg |
A bad couple making bad decisions is always a chore to watch as a movie progresses to its end. One ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Raquel 1:1
By David Wangberg |
Mariana Bastos’ Raquel 1:1 questions what would happen if the Bible was written with more favorability toward women in its ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Hypochondriac
By Davy |
As we're young, we fear that we might turn into our parents. When we are older, we deny when we ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Soft & Quiet
By Davy |
Karen-a-phobia, the fear of Karens could be an accurate tagline for Beth de Araujo's deeply disturbing Soft & Quiet, a ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Mama Bears
By Darcy Staniforth |
When you grow up in the Christian faith, you are told that if you follow God, honor Jesus, and stay ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: I Love My Dad: Deeply Uncomfortable but Strangely Sweet
By Davy |
I'm not a parent, but I have seen how complicated relationships between parent and their children can actually be. There ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: A Lot of Nothing
By Darcy Staniforth |
A Lot of Nothing begins in the place where the pain and anger about continued injustice turns from a passive ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: I Love My Dad
By Darcy Staniforth |
There is the old saying that “the truth is stranger than fiction.” So, it might be hard to believe that ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Sissy
By Davy |
Blood, gore, and social commentary are on full display in Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes' Sissy, a wicked horror-thriller that ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Your Friend, Memphis
By Davy |
People with disabilities are too often ignored in documentaries, and that's a shame. You can learn a lot from them, ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: This Much I Know to Be True
By Darcy Staniforth |
Months ahead of its cinematic release in theaters, the SXSW audience had the opportunity to view the new music documentary ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Radical Honesty
By Davy |
I can't say much about dating. I've never been on a date, so I have no experience. However, watching movies ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart
By Darcy Staniforth |
For many people, they were raised learning that we should be thinking more than feeling in our everyday lives and ...
Read More TIFF 2020 Review: Violation Mixes Heavy-Handed Symbolism with Harrowing Trauma
By Matthew St.Clair |
When Violation first opens, it shows a wolf observing its dying prey. Accompanied by an ominous score, the opening sequence provides a ...
Read More AFI Fest 2019 Review: The Apollo
By Gordon S. Miller |
Roger Ross Williams's The Apollo opens with a performance in progress as Joe Morton reads to an audience at the theater and ...
Read More Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Review: Burning Cane Is a Visceral yet Rhythmic Directing Debut
By Matthew St.Clair |
The Devil may not be an enemy that can be seen at first glance. However, he can still take many ...
Read More The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four
By Lorna Miller |
The last day started with my first 9 am block viewing. While I was tempted to sleep in, I couldn't ...
Read More The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three
By Lorna Miller |
Day Three started with what turned out to be my favorite film of the festival, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). ...
Read More The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Two
By Lorna Miller |
My first full day started with one of my all-time favorite actors Gary Cooper starring in Love in the Afternoon ...
Read More The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One
By Lorna Miller |
The festival is held over four days and spread out between the TCL Chinese Theater, the Chinese Multiplex, the Egyptian ...
Read More 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four
By Lorna Miller |
The last day of the festival is always started with a mix of emotions, sadness that it is almost over ...
Read More 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three
By Lorna Miller |
One of my most anticipated films started day three with Bullitt (1968). This is a movie I am always surprised ...
Read More 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Two
By Lorna Miller |
The second day of the festival started with the world premiere restoration of My Brilliant Career (1979) since it features ...
Read More 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One
By Lorna Miller |
Each year, I seem to be more and more excited when my press credentials are approved for the Turner Classic ...
Read More Tribeca Film Festival 2018 Review: Cargo Is a Powerful Zombie Drama
By Matthew St.Clair |
When it comes to films depicting the zombie apocalypse, we see the same repetitive formula: Survivors must fight for their ...
Read More 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four
By Lorna Miller |
The last day. It is always with mixed emotions when I look at the schedule for the final day. Film ...
Read More 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three
By Lorna Miller |
One of my most anticipated events was The Last Picture Show (1971) with director Peter Bogdanovich in attendance. While it ...
Read More 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two
By Lorna Miller |
Day One I was hoping to arrive in time to start the festival with the tribute to Robert Osborne but ...
Read More My Most Anticipated at the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival
By Gordon S. Miller |
One of the things I look forward to most every year is the TCM Classic Film Festival. It is a ...
Read More 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four
By Lorna Miller |
Heading into the last day, I was already starting to feel sad that it was almost over. No matter how ...
Read More 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three
By Lorna Miller |
I decided to sleep in to prepare for another big day ahead since there wasn't anything that I really wanted ...
Read More 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two
By Lorna Miller |
Each year as I am heading home from the TCM Classic Film Festival, I am sure that the next year ...
Read More Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Review: The Overnight Is Quasi-Porn Without the Money Shot
By Adam Blair |
It's been two days since I saw The Overnight and I'm still not quite sure what to make of it. ...
Read More 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three and Four
By Lorna Miller |
Saturday morning, I opted to sleep in and miss The Man Who Would be King (1975) to see So Dear ...
Read More 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two
By Lorna Miller |
The 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival was the best one I have attended. The previous four festivals were fantastic but ...
Read More It’s A Wrap: The 2014 Humphrey Bogart Film Festival
By Elizabeth Periale |
Humphrey Bogart Estate and Key Largo Chamber of Commerce Announce Creation of Humphrey Bogart Film Festival; Fans Can Help Select ...
Read More 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three and Four
By Lorna Miller |
Day Three Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) had me up and raring to go for Day Three. Anything starring ...
Read More Tribeca Film Festival 2014: Thelma Schoonmaker Reveals the Secrets Behind Raging Bull
By Adam Blair |
A film editor's film editor, Martin Scorsese collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker focused just on Raging Bull for her master class at ...
Read More 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two
By Lorna Miller |
The 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival was my fourth and favorite. It may have been the festival programming or the ...
Read More My 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival Journal, Part Two
By Lorna Miller |
My Saturday started off with a bit of nostalgia at “Bugs Bunny's 75th Birthday Bash”. Film critic Leonard Maltin and ...
Read More My 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival Journal, Part One
By Lorna Miller |
As the fourth annual TCM Classic Film Festival was approaching, I was filled with anticipation as I made my top ...
Read More What I Must See at the 2013 TCM Film Festival
By Lorna Miller |
As spring approaches, one of the things I look forward to with high anticipation is the TCM Classic Film Festival. ...
Read More AFI Fest 2012 Review: The Central Park Five: One the Most Important Films of the Year
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on her book The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding, Sara Burns, her husband David McMahon, ...
Read More Serenity and Nathan Fillion Close 2012 Hero Complex Film Festival
By Gordon S. Miller |
For those not in the know, Hero Complex is a website that covers the pop-culture beat with a focus on ...
Read More Reporting on the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival: Day 3 and 4
By Lorna Miller |
My longest day of the festival appropriately started with The Longest Day (1962), a star-studded World War II action film ...
Read More Reporting on the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival: Day 1 and 2
By Lorna Miller |
The 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival returned to Hollywood from April 12th through April 15th for their third edition. I ...
Read More The TCM Classic Film Festival 2011: Presenting Music and the Movies
By Gordon S. Miller |
The 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival returned to Hollywood Blvd for its second run presenting films well-known "Essentials" and obscure ...
Read More The TCM Classic Film Festival 2010: A Festival Is Born
By Gordon S. Miller |
No longer available online, this review is being re-published. The inaugural TCM Classic Film Festival brought the cable channel to ...
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