Now playing the 43rd Denver Film Festival, “Meat the Future” is a Liz Marshall documentary that explains the brainchild of cardiac surgeon Uma Valeti, who has formed Memphis Meats to bring meat grown in laboratories to market. Dr. Valeti actually ...
“Once Upon A Time in Venezuela” showed at the 43rd Denver Film Festival and was helmed by Annabel Rodriguez Rios and Sepp R. Bruderon (editor/writer). They visited the remote village of Congo Mirador many times over the course of years, ...
The intriguing film “A Perfect Enemy” starring Tomasz Kot (Cold War), was directed by 45-year-old Spanish-born director Kike Maillo. Maillo helmed the 2012 film “Eva,” when 37, and it won him the Best New Director award from the Cinema Writers ...
“Til Kingdom Come” has played both the 56th Chicago International Film Festival and the 43rd Denver Film Festival, spelling out the close relationship between evangelical Christians and the Jewish community in Israel. The 77-minute film is directed by Director Maya ...
The film unfolds a bit like peeling back the layers of an onion. Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) is married to Eddie, who is a professional thief. It’s the seventies and they live in a very seventy-ish house, with Jean basically a ...
Chelsea Christer’s documentary about Oakland’s “The Matches” rock band tries to answer the question, “What was ‘The Matches’ downfall?” In doing so, it may just open up a second chance for “Matches” stardom. It’s a thoroughly entertaining 91-minute documentary that ...
Greek director Christos Nikou has crafted a film about a pandemic that causes amnesia and a bureau, the Disturbed Memory Department for Amnesiacs, that works to re-educate those so affected. It opens with the main character, Aris (Aris Servetalis) knocking ...
Stanley Kubrick was a legendary perfectionist whose demands for more and more takes for a scene in one of his movies would nearly drive the actors to drink. This documentary, showing at the 56th Chicago International Film Festival, discusses that ...
The Opening Night Film of the Chicago International Film Festival on Wedneday, October 14th, was the documentary “Belushi.” It showed at a drive-in on Throop Street in Pilsen, but was also streamed “live” to those at home. John Belushi—one of ...
The documentary “Unfit,” (now available for rental on Amazon Prime) is the perfect companion piece to Mary Trump’s (DJT’s niece) book “Too Much and Never Enough” explaining Donald J. Trump. Both informative works feature trained professional psychiatrists or psychologists answering ...
The film “Infidel,” backed by conservative producer (and convicted felon) Dinesh D’Souza, opened September 18th with lead Jim Cavaziel portraying Doug Rawlins, the husband of a U.S. state department employee (she deals with trade matters) who is kidnapped in Egypt ...
Chadwick Boseman, (Nov. 29, 1976-Aug. 28, 2020). [Photo by Connie Wilson] The news that Chadwick Boseman was dead at 43, which came to us on Friday, August 28th, was very sad news, indeed. Boseman had been battling colon cancer ...
