• Coming Attractions,  entertainment,  Film Festivals,  Film Reviews

    Transit is Refugee Romance with Unforeseen Twist

      Based on the novel by Anna Seghers, you know in the first few intense frames of Transit that this story will resonate not only with the heart, but remind…

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  • Coming Attractions,  entertainment,  Film Festivals,  Film Reviews,  Focus Features

    Isabelle Huppert is Stalker from Hell in GRETA

    When the song “Where Are You” plays in the background as we watch Greta (Isabelle Huppert) leave a black bag on the subway while making her way through the city…

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  • entertainment

    Anime Fans will Cheer for Alita Battle Angel

    Alita: Battle Angel feels vaguely reminiscent of a variety of films like Spielberg’s Ready Player One and so many other post apocalyptic films centered around cyborgs and humans. It’s like a…

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  • Documentary Film Review,  entertainment,  Film Festivals,  Film Reviews

    Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists Journalist to Their Core

      There are many things I remember about riding the subway in New York City.   The rats running across the platforms late at night, that putrid smell of urine…

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  • Coming Attractions,  Documentary Film Review,  entertainment,  Film Festivals,  Film Reviews,  Sundance Film Festival

    Sundance ’19: Lorena on Amazon Prime Sheds New Light on Historic Case

    There is not a man alive who is not at least a little familiar with the Lorena Bobbit case.  For them, it is literally their worst nightmare.  Which is exactly…

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  • entertainment,  Film Festivals,  Film Reviews

    Family Style Clue Mystery Dominates Everybody Knows

    Originally titled Todos lo Saben and written/directed by Asghar Farhadi, Farhadi has specialized in long-buried family secrets,  grudges and jealousies. His writing and direction are precise, each new revelation fitting together…

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  • Award Shows,  entertainment,  Film Reviews

    Close and Pryce are Masterful in The Wife

    Ghostwriting is done all the time.  In order to do so, you literally have to have no attachment or ego to the work you are crafting.  That task becomes rather…

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  • Coming Attractions,  entertainment,  Film Festivals,  Film Reviews,  Sundance Film Festival

    Sundance ‘19: The Last Black Man in San Francisco Charming Gentrification Tale

    Jimmie Fails is a resident of San Francisco whose major mode of transportation is via skateboard. Jimmie is not just any resident of the Bay Area,  He’s a third generation…

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  • Coming Attractions,  entertainment,  Film Festivals,  Film Reviews,  Sundance Film Festival

    Sundance ’19: Ine Marie Wilmann is Spectacular as Sonja The White Swan

    Growing up in the midwest, my winters were filled with ice-skating in Forest Park on Sundays.  My cousin and I would pretend we were competing in the pairs division of…

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  • AFI Film Festival,  Coming Attractions,  Documentary Film Review,  entertainment,  Film Reviews,  Sundance Film Festival

    Toni Morrison Doc Insightful and Inspiring

    Howard University was my introduction to a few things. Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded on that campus and Toni Morrison (a fellow Bison) would become my literary guru. Toni’s writing’s…

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