Two of the strongest female performances of the year, so far, have been from Emily Blunt (“A Quiet Place”) and Toni Collette (“Hereditary”). Not only are their performances intense, your attention will be riveted to the screen to see what ...
Finn Wittrock, who is a Julliard graduate and has done a lot of theater, played a psychotic clown on “American Horror Story” in 2014-2016, but in this movie he is a bad boy who doesn’t want to go straight. He ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd_pMz4TlS4 Galveston, based on the novel by Nic Pizzolatto, World Premiered here last Saturday (March 10th). Although I was assigned Red Carpet duties and Ben Foster, its star, was supposed to attend, along with Elle Fanning, it would have meant ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWkS1gO3aNI Final Portrait is Stanley Tucci’s directorial debut. He also scripted the film, which stars Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clemence Poesy, Tony Shalhoub and Sylvie Testud. Given that it was Tucci’s film debut and he was listed as going to ...
Two documentaries showing at SXSW deal with the difficulty of being an athlete and hanging it up (i.e., retiring). Those two are “Time Trial” by Finlay Pretsel of Scotland and “Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes,” directed by ...
Back in 2004, four Lexington, Kentucky students named Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk and Charles Allen II hatched a half-baked plan to steal two rare books from the Transylvania University Library: a first edition of “On the Origin of ...
Comedian Jim Gaffigan and most of the rest of the cast make their film debuts in Director Miranda Bailey’s comedy You Can Choose Your Family, which showed at the Zach Theater at SXSW on Sunday, March 18, the same evening ...
Some of the cast of This Is Us showed up on Monday, March 12th, at SXSW in Austin (TX), to shill for their Season 2 Finale Episode. We were told that this was a change of rules for SXSW, as the ...
Lean on Pete is a heartwarming film that re-introduces us to a promising new young actor being asked to carry the weight of the movie as its leading man. And this is nothing if not a weighty movie/ Charlie ...
A Quiet Place opened the film portion of the 25th year of the SXSW film festival. It was John Krasinski’s (“The Office”) directorial debut, starring opposite his wife, Emily Blunt, and featuring 3 children, played by Noah Jupe (Marcus), Millicent ...
I recently attended the Oakton Community College Pop-Up Film Festival. The festival is organized by Film Instructor and Director Michael G. Smith in Des Plaines, Illinois. Porto is a film featuring one of Anton Yelchin’s final film performances, and was shown ...
BPM, which, in French, is 120 Battements Par Minute, is France’s official entry in the Academy Awards competition. Its title is taken from electronic dance music lingo and, also, from life, in general. In Paris in the early 1990s, a ...
