A young basketball phenom battles the business-driven machine of the major college coaching system. In so doing, he knows full well that his fully financed sports scholarship to a perennial basketball power is now at risk of being stripped away ...
Wyoming, circa early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. In the wake of a train robbery gone horribly wrong, they find themselves on the run with an elite hired posse hard ...
A deranged truck driver weaponizes his tanker truck to terrorize a traveling salesman across the California desert. “Duel” (1971): A first glimpse at Greatness Classic Film Feature by John Smistad And he was only gettin’ warmed up Steven Spielberg’s debut feature ...
Teenager Thale (Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne, “Royalteen”) has recently moved with her family from Oslo to a quaint Norwegian community for her mother’s (Liv Mjönes, “Midsommar”) new job as the town’s police chief. Almost immediately a fellow high school student ...
“Heir of the Witch” is a new horror movie by first-time feature filmmaker Victoria U. Bell. The malevolent spirit of a witch terrorizes a woman, viciously murdering anyone who attempts to get close to her. The Witch “Inspired” by actual ...
Outpost: In the wake of a violent attack, a woman searches for strength in the solitude of a forest fire lookout tower job. Soon she is systematically and diabolically overwhelmed by something darker. “Outpost” (2023): A Mountain of Mayhem New ...
Hard to fathom that a flick about a ration of reprobates running for their lives from an onslaught of equally as reprehensible New York City gangs circa the late 1970’s would have you pulling for the former. Yet, somehow, “The ...
A troubled Mumbai surveillance center operator ditches police protocol and begins to independently investigate incidents happening on her watch. “PRIVACY” (2023): Exposing the Wrong Done to Our Inherent Right Film Preview/Review by John Smistad Privacy is a human privilege. Appreciated. Coveted. ...
I write short stories and novellas. I’ve often thought about composing and submitting my work as a script to agents and others in the TV and movie industry. However, I found the rigid formatting process of doing this so daunting, ...
A barfly jazz pianist must commit murder to pay off a drug debt to a crooked cop. Best hold on tight. It’s gonna be one helluva night. Upcoming New Indie Crime Drama “TONIC” (2023): The Perils of The Piano Man ...
The Netflix three-episode miniseries “War Sailor” (including subtitles) is a gut-wrenching saga of mostly Norwegian civilians thrust full force into the fire of savage battle during World War II. Though not soldiers, these remarkably courageous men and women fought with ...
“Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters” dives deeply into the creative process that culminated in choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones’s tour de force ballet D-Man in the Waters. Born amidst the AIDS crisis in 1989, ...
