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SXSW2016, Part 4 (Friday, March 18 and beyond)

If you missed it earlier in the week, here is the list of the SXSW2016 Jury Awards. And here are … More

Everybody Wants Some, Hammer to Nail, My Blind Brother, Ovarian Psycos, Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, SXSW, SXSW2016, Teenage Cocktail

SXSW2016, Part 3 (Wednesday-Thursday, March 16-17)

And so the week at SXSW has continued. Since the last post, I have had only two more pieces published on … More

Don Cheadle, Hammer to Nail, In Pursuit of Silence, Miles Ahead, Patrick Shen, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, SXSW, SXSW2016, The Bandit, The Dwarvenaut

SXSW2016, Part 2 (Monday-Tuesday, March 14-15)

The last two days of the festival have seen me continue with more of the same – movie screenings and … More

Hammer to Nail, Hunter Gatherer, Learning to See: The World of Insects, Operator, SXSW, SXSW2016, The Dwarvenaut, Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

Welcome to SXSW2016!

It’s that time of year again, as it was in 2014 and 2015, when I took my first and second trips, … More

A Stray, Alive and Kicking, Film & Moving Image, Hardcore Henry, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Jean of the Joneses, Stevenson University, SXSW, SXSW2016, Teenage Cocktail, Trapped

In Clever “10 Cloverfield Lane,” the Demons May Not Be All in Your Head

10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016) Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. Such … More

10 Cloverfield Lane

Reviews of Two Oscar-Nominated Foreign-Language Films on “Bmoreart”: “Son of Saul” and “A War”

In the past month, I have had two reviews – both of Oscar-nominated foreign-language films – published in Bmoreart, an award-winning Baltimore-based … More

A War, BmoreArt, Son of Saul

Two Documentary Reviews on “Hammer to Nail”: “The Last Man on the Moon” and “Here Come the Videofreex”

In the past two weeks, I have had two reviews – both of documentary films – published in Hammer to Nail: The Last … More

Hammer to Nail, Here Come the Videofreex, Last Man on the Moon

In Ultra-Violent “London Has Fallen,” the Means Are Always Justified

London Has Fallen (Babak Najafi, 2016) Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, like Die Hard‘s John McLane before him, always seems to … More

London Has Fallen

Three Oscar-Nominated Documentaries Worth Watching on Netflix

Lucky you! There’s still time to watch a few more of the Oscar-nominated documentary films before the February 28, 2016, … More

Cartel Land, Evgeny Afineevsky, Liz Garbus, Matthew Heineman, Netflix, Nina Simone, Ukraine, What Happened Miss Simone?, Winter on Fire

In “Triple 9,” Much to Our (Lack of) Surprise, Crime Doesn’t Pay

Triple 9 (John Hillcoat, 2016) “The code on the street is never black and white,” reads the tagline on the … More

Triple 9

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