Well, another Halloween down, and that means another Shriekfest has also crept into the history books. Or shall I say; the dusty, creaky tomes of yesterdays. Nonetheless, it was a treat to attend as it was last year. Our gracious hosts, Denise Gossett and Todd Beeson, always put on a great festival of independent films. …
DetailsFilms made as book adaptations are often hard enough. You don’t always know what you’re going to get on the screen. But sometimes you’re really impressed. So when I heard Spike Jonze was making a film of “Where the Wild Tings Are”, I was alternately delighted and wary. How do you make a movie…
Details“Amelia” is the story of Amelia Earhart portrayed by Hilary Swank, who you may know at the… OMG, I’m bored just thinking about it. This is the most boring biopic of any I’ve seen. From the first line I was bored. And there’s no reason to be bored. It’s Amelia Earhart, known for having…
DetailsIf you want to see Good Hair and you don’t live in a predominantly Black neighborhood you have to go to a predominantly Black neighborhood. This review will reflect my “Black Experience” (Version 2.0 – I took Intro To Black Experience when I taught Head Start in Milwaukee in 1990). The film was…
DetailsUgh! I got the first Twilight. I liked it. I’m not in the desired demographic, but I get it. It’s a sexy teen vampire romance. Who wouldn’t like that? Hot vampire Edward Cullen is a bad boy. He thirsts for his girlfriend’s blood. That’s the ultimate bad boy. But this movie, the second…
DetailsWhen you watch a movie like 2012, the last thing on the studio’s mind is movie reviews. They just don’t matter. So what can I say about 2012 other than the fact that it was absurdly entertaining to watch a movie made inside a computer by a director who has the emotional development of…
DetailsI just walked out of the theater and in the light, cold rain, back to my Radisson Hotel off the 75 freeway in Dallas. I’m a little uneasy about this film. Not because it wasn’t good, because it was a great movie. It was the subject matter and the ugly, angry reality of…
DetailsBad Lieutenant is not a sequel to Bad Lieutenant staring naked Harvey Keitel. The movie is about an entirely different bad lieutenant and the producers thought it would be a good idea to name it after the 1992 film that was also not very good. Even the director, Werner Herzog said they shouldn’t name…
DetailsThis film looked interesting from the moment I saw the trailer. Toby Maguire plays Capt. Sam Cahill, father of two daughters, husband to Grace Cahill. His brother, Tommy, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, has just gotten out of jail, while Sam is sent off to Afghanistan. While there, Sam’s helicopter goes down, and word is sent back home that he is dead. Tommy sort of fills the gap of watching over Grace and the little girls. Then Sam comes home, but he’s pretty messed up because of the things he suffered in the war.
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I was really excited to see this movie. Some cool ninja on ninja action and nonstop impossible martial arts nonsense. I was so there. Well, I was there. I wish the movie had come with me. I wish I had seen the movie in my head that I had pieced together from the trailer. …
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