In the past two weeks, Film Festival Today published 6 reviews of mine:
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Category: movie reviews
Reviews on movies I have seen, whether they be new releases or older films.
@fogoftruth Bonus Episode: FIELD OF VISION Shorts
In what is now a tradition for bonus episodes, we look at an online collective of short documentaries, this time with Field of Vision. Founded by Laura Poitras, AJ Schnak and Charlotte Cook, the site showcases insightful films from insider perspectives on various areas of the world, with a focus on political and social inequalities.
Field of Vision Films Covered:
- The Above / 2015 (Director: Kirsten Johnson)
- Adversary / 2018 (Director: Scott Cummings)
- Concussion Protocol / 2018 (Director: Josh Begley)
- Libre / 2019 (Director: Ana Barsan)
- Our New President / 2017 (Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin)
- Relatively Free / 2016 (Director: Alex Winter)
As always, you can find the audio of the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available. Enjoy!
7 Reviews @filmfesttoday: THE BRINK, DUMBO, PET SEMATARY, THE PUBLIC, SHAZAM!, SKID ROW MARATHON and STORM BOY
In the past two weeks, Film Festival Today published 7 reviews of mine:
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SXSW2019 @hammertonail Coverage, Part 1 + Festival Overview at @filmfesttoday
Chris Reed and Rodney Evans of VISION PORTRAITS
My coverage of the 2019 SXSW Film Festival begins with 5 reviews and 1 interview at Hammer to Nail plus an overview piece at Film Festival Today:
“Reel Talk” – with Chris Reed and Mae Abdulbaki – on the 2019 Oscars, “The Wedding Guest” and “Captain Marvel”
Christopher Llewellyn Reed, “Reel Talk” host, w/ Mae Abdulbaki of movieswithmae.com
Welcome to the fourth episode of the 2018-2019 season of Dragon Digital Media‘s Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed. My guest this time was Mae Abdulbaki, film critic at Movies with Mae, TV editor at The Young Folks, member of the Alliance of Women in Film Journalism, and, like me, a member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (or WAFCA). We discussed the 2019 Oscars and also reviewed two new films, The Wedding Guest and Captain Marvel. Enjoy! Be sure to check out our first, second and third episodes of the season, or even last year’s season (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4 and Episode 5). We’ll be back in May. Until then!
In Howard County, Maryland, you can watch the show on Channel 41 (if you’re a Verizon customer) or Channel 96 (if you’re a Comcast customer), and you can watch it online from anywhere. The fantastic Dragon Digital Media team did their usual superlative job putting this together, especially producer Karen Vadnais and director Danielle Maloney, as well as floor manager Anthony Hoos. Have fun this summer at the movies! Here’s hoping there are at least a few great films!
@fogoftruth Episode 506: SXSW 2019 Reviews/Interviews of/with PAHOKEE and RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS
For SXSW we discuss two of the films playing this year, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins and Pahokee, and Bart and Chris interview the filmmakers of each while in Austin, Texas. To see the videos that accompany our interviews, please go to our “video extras” page. As always, you can find the audio of the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available. Enjoy!
This concludes Season 5. Stay tuned for a few bonus episodes over the next two months, with Season 6 slated to begin in mid- to late May.
Coverage of 2019 Sundance Film Festival at @hammertonail, Part 3 + Review of UNITED SKATES
Emelie Mahdavian of MIDNIGHT TRAVELER with Chris Reed
My Hammer to Nail coverage of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival continues with four more reviews and one interview:
- Interview with editor/producer/writer Emelie Mahdavian of Midnight Traveler (pictured above)
- Review of Knock Down the House
- Review of Memory: The Origins of Alien
- Review of One Child Nation
- Review of Where’s My Roy Cohn?
In addition, here is my review of United Skates!
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“Captain Marvel” Is Everything a Superhero Film Should Be
Captain Marvel (Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck, 2019)
As I always feel compelled to write at the start of a review about a Marvel film, I am no fan boy of the superhero genre, having long-ago abandoned any real interest in comics. I do, however, love good action/adventure sagas, and so I approach each and every movie like this with the hope that it will deliver thrills and more. The good ones (or at least the entertaining ones) among them – Ant-Man, Black Panther, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Iron Man and Thor: Ragnarok – tell their stories through as much wit and charm as muscle and CGI, with the best among them (Black Panther and Winter Soldier, and to a lesser degree Iron Man) folding in socially relevant commentary, as well (and though Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a work of rare genius, it is sui generis, not really part of the general Marvel series). I also happen to like compelling origin tales. Guess what, O fans and casual viewers? Captain Marvel offers not only a great introduction to a new character, but also a super-compelling fable with something to say about the real world. What more could one ask for? Continue reading
4 Reviews + 1 Interview @filmfesttoday: APOLLO 11, BIRDS OF PASSAGE, TIME FOR ILHAN, TRANSIT and THE WEDDING GUEST
In the past week, Film Festival Today published 4 reviews of mine plus 1 interview:
- Apollo 11 interview
- Birds of Passage review
- Time for Ilhan review
- Transit review
- The Wedding Guest review
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@fogoftruth Episode 505: HILLBILLY and INGRID
We discuss portrayals of Southern culture as we look at Hillbilly and Chris interviews Morrisa Maltz, the director of Ingrid.
As always, you can find the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available.
