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AFI Film Festival, Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews
SNL Alum’s Heart and Humanity Exposed in RJ Cutler Doc Belushi
If one were asked who is their favorite all time Saturday Night Live alum there are a few names that you will hear…Gilda Radner, Eddie Murphy and John Belushi. Belushi…
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Irish Folklore and Gorgeous Animation Make Wolfwalkers Worth Watching
Directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, this third installment of Cartoon Saloon's Irish folklore trilogy fulfills the promise of The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea. Wolfwalkers…
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A Son’s Will to Free Parents Prevails in HBO Doc 40 Years A Prisoner
America in the 70’s was wrought with turmoil, anger, racial and civil unrest. Sound familiar? In 1978, the Philadelphia police raided upon a radical back-to-nature group (MOVE). HBO Documentary Film’s…
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Really Love is Beautiful and Realistic Cinematic Portrait of Black Love
Relationships are complicated. One that feel the moon, feel the stars honeymoon phase dissipates and the rose colored glasses come off you begin to see each other for who you…
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AFI DOCS, Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, SXSW, TIFF 2020
76 Days Pays Homage to COVID-19 First Responders in Wuhan
It is my sincere hope that when audiences view this film, they will come the realization that this virus in not a hoax. It doesn't care if you are rich,…
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Riz Ahmed is Astounding as Drummer with Hearing Loss in Sound of Metal
The manner in which Marder brings us into the world of Ruben as he navigates the complexities of deafness into a post cochleae world is incredibly intricate and heartbreaking. …
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Alzheimer Patient Given Dignity via Lou Gossett, Jr. in The Cuban
It's alot to unpack, but you don't mind all the pieces of luggage presented before you with a soundtrack as lively and interesting as the characters inhabiting this story. Then…
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Resilient, Unflinching and Unwavering is Fox Rich in Amazon Doc TIME
Combining the video diaries Fox recorded for Rob with an intimate glimpse of her present-day life, director Garrett Bradley with love and respect paints a mesmerizing portrait of the resilience…
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Politics, Civil Justice and the Law in Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7
Sasha Baron Cohen breaks out of any stereotypical ideology that proceeds him in the role of Abbie Hoffman. His comedic sensibility serve him well in reenacting Hoffman's courtroom antics and…
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Radha Blank Shares Her 40 year Old Version and It Is Right on Time
This amazingly gifted new cinematic voice shatters stereotypes with a story that point blank illustrates how long Black artists have been wearing masks out of fear, being fired or being…