“Desert Cathedral” marks the feature directorial debut for independent filmmaker Travis Gutiérrez Senger (who also wrote and co-produced). The extraordinarily anomalous based on actual events story centers around the mysterious 1992 disappearance of Peter Collins, a severely distraught Pacific Northwest real ...
The freshly wide-released and most unconventionally presented docudrama “Desert Cathedral” seemed to offer some of my very favorite facets of film. These are in no particular order of preference: suspense, drama, a darkish theme, an enigmatic and sparingly speaking main ...
I am the proud son of a proud retired NASA engineer. My Dad and his teammates, many of them fathers of my friends and neighbors in suburban Houston, Texas, helped put Americans on the moon. I grew up literally within ...
The recently released “Starving the Beast” is a documentary which, depending upon your perspective, is likely to either alarm or appease you in terms of the current and future state of higher education in America. I recently had the opportunity to talk ...
The message being imparted in “Starving The Beast”, the recently released documentary examining what is alleged to be a shift in direction among some American public higher education institutions seems to boil down to this: Humanities, liberal arts and other ...
When the overarching premise of the indie horror drama “Lace Crater” is introduced you will likely wonder if this is some kind of a goofy send up or an absurdist farce. I sure as hell did. But as events unfold ...
https://youtu.be/LlT9CWKAUCI THE GENERAL IDEA At first the slice of life indie drama “A Country Called Home” seems to be trying too hard to be indelible. But I found as I let this small town tale of self-discovery and lives recalibrated ...
THE GENERAL IDEA Bob Tarasuk is outstanding in the middle-aged actor’s first feature film leading role as a beleaguered logger in “Bob and the Trees”. Tarasuk’s achingly authentic portrayal of a man teetering on the brink of complete surrender to ...
https://youtu.be/paFYyeAFNVc THE GENERAL IDEA If you remember his heyday of the 1970’s, or even if you’re familiar with him at all, it seems that you’re bound either to love or hate pop music legend John Denver. There’s little sentiment in-between. ...
THE GENERAL IDEA Is the terribly troubled Wyatt (MacLeod Andrews) a complete nut job or are there really diabolically disguised monsters all about us intending to take over our planet? This is the unusually intriguing and engagingly executed premise driving ...
THE GENERAL IDEA You don’t know me (most likely). But this guy Jimmy (Ron Eldard, in an affectingly understated performance) in “Roadie” is me. Not in every aspect of his life, certainly. But in essence. THE GOOD Jimmy cherishes, and largely ...
THE GENERAL IDEA Shane Carruth is a distinctively imaginative voice who is never gonna tell you precisely what’s going on in, nor cue you how he wants you to feel about, the unusually compelling films he makes. And when we ...
