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TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 Review: Celebrating Film Legacies

By Lorna Miller | Apr 21, 2023

My eleventh opportunity to cover the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood provided an opportunity to enjoy some old favorites ...

Make Believe Seattle 2023 Review: Smoking Causes Coughing

By Steve Geise | Mar 26, 2023

If you’re in the Seattle area this weekend, Make Believe Seattle Film Festival is making its debut with a fascinating ...

A scene grab from the short film Fireworks

Tribeca 2022 Interview: Producer Annalise Davis Talks Fireworks

By David Wangberg | Jul 1, 2022

Producer Annalise Davis has been in the film industry for nearly 20 years, having worked on films such as The ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: The DOC

By Darcy Staniforth | Jun 30, 2022

In the rap and hip hop world, it's one thing to have confidence and ego about being one of the ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Fireworks

By David Wangberg | Jun 29, 2022

There have been many films and television series that involve top-level characters carrying out orders to bomb a certain location ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine

By Davy | Jun 23, 2022

Coming out of the closet for in one of the most difficult things that anyone in LGBTQ community ever has ...

A scene from the 2022 movie Katrina Babies

Tribeca 2022 Review: Katrina Babies

By David Wangberg | Jun 22, 2022

There is no way that someone could direct a documentary such as Katrina Babies the same way if they had ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: A Rising Fury

By David Wangberg | Jun 17, 2022

Starting with the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2013, and leading up to the current invasion from Russia, A Rising ...

An interactive scene from the movie The Visitor

Tribeca 2022 Review: The Visitor

By David Wangberg | Jun 17, 2022

After spending time in jail for “alcoholism,” Humberto (Enrique Araoz) is three years sober and ready to restart his life ...

Integrity of Joseph Chambers movie scene

Tribeca 2022 Review: The Integrity of Joseph Chambers

By David Wangberg | Jun 17, 2022

Joseph Chambers (Clayne Crawford), or “Joe” as some call him, is not the kind of man you would think could ...

An emotional scene from the movie A Love Song

Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Review: A Love Song

By Davy | Jun 17, 2022

An unorthodox romance set in a beautiful, vast Colorado backdrop is at the center of Max Walker-Silverman's beguilingly unassuming directorial ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: A Love Song

By David Wangberg | Jun 16, 2022

Dale Dickey has been acting for nearly 30 years, and chances are, you’ve seen her in at least one movie ...

LeVar Burton featuring in Butterfly in the Sky movie

Tribeca 2022 Review: Butterfly in the Sky

By David Wangberg | Jun 16, 2022

The opening scene of Butterfly in the Sky centers LeVar Burton in front of a huge library filled with books. ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Wes Schlagenhauf is Dying

By Davy | Jun 16, 2022

If you said that there are too many pandemic comedies existing now, I would have to agree with you. However, ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Out of Order

By Davy | Jun 15, 2022

Sometimes the big city can bring a lot of you, including your search of love after heartbreak. This appealingly familiar ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 15, 2022

Produced and directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story documents the love ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Nude Tuesday

By Davy | Jun 14, 2022

I've never been married nor have been in a relationship, but I have seen enough on film and TV to ...

A scene from the movie Peace in the Valley

Tribeca 2022 Review: Peace in the Valley

By David Wangberg | Jun 14, 2022

It’s a sad coincidence that Tyler Riggs’ Peace in the Valley premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival as the nation ...

An emotional scene from the movie Rounding

Tribeca 2022 Review: Rounding

By David Wangberg | Jun 12, 2022

Alex Thompson’s Rounding is classified as a psychological thriller, and it has the necessary elements to categorize it as such. ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Closing Dynasty

By Davy | Jun 11, 2022

Written and directed by Lloyd Lee Choi Closing Dynasty is a quietly humanistic short portrait of how we really do ...

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Review: Day Three

By Lorna Miller | May 1, 2022

[Read Lorna's Day One and Two coverage of TCMFF 2022] Three on a Match (1932) was one of the most ...

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Review: Day One and Two

By Lorna Miller | Apr 30, 2022

After a three-year hiatus, the TCM Classic Film Festival returned to an in-person event in Hollywood over four days and ...

The Fellowship of the Mafia Ring DVD Cover

SXSW 2022 Review: Mickey: The Story of a Mouse

By David Wangberg | Mar 23, 2022

As Walt Disney once said, “It all started with a mouse.” Now, that mouse, whose name you are probably spelling ...

A scene from the movie Cha Cha Real Smooth

SXSW 2022 Review: Cha Cha Real Smooth

By David Wangberg | Mar 21, 2022

Coming-of-age movies have a tendency to be huge successes in the festival circuit, and most wind up becoming popular with ...

SXSW 2022 Review: In the Court of the Crimson King

By Kent Conrad | Mar 19, 2022

I've seen King Crimson once in concert. It was at the Greek in Los Angeles in 2017, and I went ...

Tony Hawk, Until the Wheels Fall Off action scene

SXSW 2022 Review: Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off

By David Wangberg | Mar 19, 2022

The opening minutes of Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off captivate the viewer with footage of a present-day Hawk, ...

SXSW 2022 Review: The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks Review

By Davy | Mar 18, 2022

If you're a huge fan of the classic sketch comedy show The Kids of the Hall, you instantly recognize the ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Master

By Davy | Mar 17, 2022

Let's face it, Jordan Peele's Get Out (2018) continues to be the horror gold standard of films about racism and ...

A scene from the movie The Cow by Eli Horowitz

SXSW 2022 Review: The Cow

By David Wangberg | Mar 17, 2022

A bad couple making bad decisions is always a chore to watch as a movie progresses to its end. One ...

A movie scene interpreting a Biblical event

SXSW 2022 Review: Raquel 1:1

By David Wangberg | Mar 17, 2022

Mariana Bastos’ Raquel 1:1 questions what would happen if the Bible was written with more favorability toward women in its ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Hypochondriac

By Davy | Mar 16, 2022

As we're young, we fear that we might turn into our parents. When we are older, we deny when we ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Soft & Quiet

By Davy | Mar 16, 2022

Karen-a-phobia, the fear of Karens could be an accurate tagline for Beth de Araujo's deeply disturbing Soft & Quiet, a ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Mama Bears

By Darcy Staniforth | Mar 16, 2022

When you grow up in the Christian faith, you are told that if you follow God, honor Jesus, and stay ...

SXSW 2022 Review: I Love My Dad: Deeply Uncomfortable but Strangely Sweet

By Davy | Mar 15, 2022

I'm not a parent, but I have seen how complicated relationships between parent and their children can actually be. There ...

SXSW 2022 Review: A Lot of Nothing

By Darcy Staniforth | Mar 14, 2022

A Lot of Nothing begins in the place where the pain and anger about continued injustice turns from a passive ...

SXSW 2022 Review: I Love My Dad

By Darcy Staniforth | Mar 13, 2022

There is the old saying that “the truth is stranger than fiction.” So, it might be hard to believe that ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Sissy

By Davy | Mar 13, 2022

Blood, gore, and social commentary are on full display in Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes' Sissy, a wicked horror-thriller that ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Your Friend, Memphis

By Davy | Mar 12, 2022

People with disabilities are too often ignored in documentaries, and that's a shame. You can learn a lot from them, ...

SXSW 2022 Review: This Much I Know to Be True

By Darcy Staniforth | Mar 12, 2022

Months ahead of its cinematic release in theaters, the SXSW audience had the opportunity to view the new music documentary ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Radical Honesty

By Davy | Mar 12, 2022

I can't say much about dating. I've never been on a date, so I have no experience. However, watching movies ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart

By Darcy Staniforth | Mar 12, 2022

For many people, they were raised learning that we should be thinking more than feeling in our everyday lives and ...

TIFF 2020 Review: Violation Mixes Heavy-Handed Symbolism with Harrowing Trauma

By Matthew St.Clair | Sep 23, 2020

When Violation first opens, it shows a wolf observing its dying prey. Accompanied by an ominous score, the opening sequence provides a ...

AFI Fest 2019 Review: The Apollo

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 21, 2019

Roger Ross Williams's The Apollo opens with a performance in progress as Joe Morton reads to an audience at the theater and ...

Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Review: Burning Cane Is a Visceral yet Rhythmic Directing Debut

By Matthew St.Clair | Apr 28, 2019

The Devil may not be an enemy that can be seen at first glance. However, he can still take many ...

The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four

By Lorna Miller | Apr 24, 2019

The last day started with my first 9 am block viewing. While I was tempted to sleep in, I couldn't ...

The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three

By Lorna Miller | Apr 23, 2019

Day Three started with what turned out to be my favorite film of the festival, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). ...

The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Two

By Lorna Miller | Apr 22, 2019

My first full day started with one of my all-time favorite actors Gary Cooper starring in Love in the Afternoon ...

The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One

By Lorna Miller | Apr 21, 2019

The festival is held over four days and spread out between the TCL Chinese Theater, the Chinese Multiplex, the Egyptian ...

2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four

By Lorna Miller | Jun 1, 2018

The last day of the festival is always started with a mix of emotions, sadness that it is almost over ...

2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three

By Lorna Miller | May 18, 2018

One of my most anticipated films started day three with Bullitt (1968). This is a movie I am always surprised ...

2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Two

By Lorna Miller | May 13, 2018

The second day of the festival started with the world premiere restoration of My Brilliant Career (1979) since it features ...

2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One

By Lorna Miller | May 4, 2018

Each year, I seem to be more and more excited when my press credentials are approved for the Turner Classic ...

Tribeca Film Festival 2018 Review: Cargo Is a Powerful Zombie Drama

By Matthew St.Clair | Apr 21, 2018

When it comes to films depicting the zombie apocalypse, we see the same repetitive formula: Survivors must fight for their ...

2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four

By Lorna Miller | Apr 23, 2017

The last day. It is always with mixed emotions when I look at the schedule for the final day. Film ...

2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three

By Lorna Miller | Apr 18, 2017

One of my most anticipated events was The Last Picture Show (1971) with director Peter Bogdanovich in attendance. While it ...

2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two

By Lorna Miller | Apr 16, 2017

Day One I was hoping to arrive in time to start the festival with the tribute to Robert Osborne but ...

My Most Anticipated at the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 3, 2017

One of the things I look forward to most every year is the TCM Classic Film Festival. It is a ...

2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four

By Lorna Miller | May 11, 2016

Heading into the last day, I was already starting to feel sad that it was almost over. No matter how ...

2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three

By Lorna Miller | May 10, 2016

I decided to sleep in to prepare for another big day ahead since there wasn't anything that I really wanted ...

2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two

By Lorna Miller | May 5, 2016

Each year as I am heading home from the TCM Classic Film Festival, I am sure that the next year ...

Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Review: The Overnight Is Quasi-Porn Without the Money Shot

By Adam Blair | Apr 21, 2015

It's been two days since I saw The Overnight and I'm still not quite sure what to make of it. ...

2015 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three and Four

By Lorna Miller | Mar 31, 2015

Saturday morning, I opted to sleep in and miss The Man Who Would be King (1975) to see So Dear ...

2015 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two

By Lorna Miller | Mar 28, 2015

The 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival was the best one I have attended. The previous four festivals were fantastic but ...

It’s A Wrap: The 2014 Humphrey Bogart Film Festival

By Elizabeth Periale | May 4, 2014

Humphrey Bogart Estate and Key Largo Chamber of Commerce Announce Creation of Humphrey Bogart Film Festival; Fans Can Help Select ...

2014 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three and Four

By Lorna Miller | Apr 22, 2014

Day Three Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) had me up and raring to go for Day Three. Anything starring ...

Tribeca Film Festival 2014: Thelma Schoonmaker Reveals the Secrets Behind Raging Bull

By Adam Blair | Apr 22, 2014

A film editor's film editor, Martin Scorsese collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker focused just on Raging Bull for her master class at ...

2014 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two

By Lorna Miller | Apr 19, 2014

The 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival was my fourth and favorite. It may have been the festival programming or the ...

My 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival Journal, Part Two

By Lorna Miller | Apr 30, 2013

My Saturday started off with a bit of nostalgia at “Bugs Bunny's 75th Birthday Bash”. Film critic Leonard Maltin and ...

My 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival Journal, Part One

By Lorna Miller | Apr 29, 2013

As the fourth annual TCM Classic Film Festival was approaching, I was filled with anticipation as I made my top ...

What I Must See at the 2013 TCM Film Festival

By Lorna Miller | Apr 3, 2013

As spring approaches, one of the things I look forward to with high anticipation is the TCM Classic Film Festival. ...

AFI Fest 2012 Review: The Central Park Five: One the Most Important Films of the Year

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 30, 2012

Based on her book The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding, Sara Burns, her husband David McMahon, ...

Serenity and Nathan Fillion Close 2012 Hero Complex Film Festival

By Gordon S. Miller | May 22, 2012

For those not in the know, Hero Complex is a website that covers the pop-culture beat with a focus on ...

Reporting on the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival: Day 3 and 4

By Lorna Miller | Apr 21, 2012

My longest day of the festival appropriately started with The Longest Day (1962), a star-studded World War II action film ...

Reporting on the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival: Day 1 and 2

By Lorna Miller | Apr 17, 2012

The 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival returned to Hollywood from April 12th through April 15th for their third edition. I ...

The TCM Classic Film Festival 2011: Presenting Music and the Movies

By Gordon S. Miller | May 2, 2011

The 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival returned to Hollywood Blvd for its second run presenting films well-known "Essentials" and obscure ...

The TCM Classic Film Festival 2010: A Festival Is Born

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 9, 2011

No longer available online, this review is being re-published. The inaugural TCM Classic Film Festival brought the cable channel to ...