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Thursday, Sep. 8, 2022
Review: Director-Writer Zach Cregger's "Barbarian"
"Barbarian" starts at night with a heavy downpour and a thunderclap. So far, so good, for what seems to be a classic horror movie. Hold onto your ponchos. Some two hours later you will have seen virtually every horror convention —- from doors slamming on their own to weird monsters with mommy...
Saturday, Sep. 3, 2022
Cast Reflects On, Shares Details About "Rings of Power"
Amazon Studios has launched "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," a series is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's writings which take place long before "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" films and books. It's a television production of epic proportions, with an estimated price tag of $465 million for...
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022
Fall Movie Preview: High Hopes For A Return To Box Office Norm
For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. Festival red carpets are rolled out. Oscar campaigns are primed. Long-awaited blockbusters, like "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and "Avatar: The Way of Water," are poised for big box office. But...
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022
Review: "Breaking" Marks Michael K. Williams' Final Film Role
"Breaking," Abi Damaris Corbin's lean and heartfelt first feature, is a lackluster bank-robbery thriller with noble intentions enlivened by an impassioned performance by John Boyega and an elegiac final appearance by the late Michael K. Williams. It's not until well into "Breaking" that Williams,...
Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022
Review: Director Bianca Stigter's "Three Minutes: A Lengthening"
What gets you, deep in the gut, are the smiles. The broad, awkward, sometimes silly smiles of people on an unremarkable day in an unremarkable town in 1938 Poland, fascinated by this new thing called a movie camera and oblivious to the fact that one day, this amateur travel movie will become a...
Friday, Aug. 5, 2022
Cinematographers & Cameras: Emmy Nominees Discuss "Atlanta," "Station Eleven," "Gaslit," "Dopesick," "How I Met Your Father"
One DP garnered his third and fourth career Emmy nominations--both for collaborations with a director whom he first worked with on a commercial. Another cinematographer garnered his first Emmy nomination while a feature he shot gains momentum in the early Oscar season conversation. Yet another DP...
Friday, Aug. 5, 2022
Mid-year Report Card: Creative Solutions, Teamwork, A Proactive Mindset
“There are moments in my career as a producer and company owner that have experienced great disruption but nothing compares to what we are living through right now,” said Bonnie Goldfarb, co-founder/executive producer at harvest films. Yet out of the tumult of our times--from a troubled economy to...
Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022
Review: Director David Leitch's "Bullet Train"
Aboard the speeding locomotive of "Bullet Train" ride at least five assassins, one venomous reptile (a snake on the train), countless glib Guy Ritchie-esque slo-mo action sequences, and one bucket-hat wearing Brad Pitt. It's a lot of ingredients that go into this candy-colored, battle royale of a...
Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2022
Review: Writer-Director Jordan Peele's "Nope"
A great debut in Hollywood can be a blessing and a curse. Once you knock it out of the park like Jordan Peele did with "Get Out," which captured the zeitgeist so perfectly within the framework of a greatly entertaining thriller, home runs become the standard, not the exception. Now three movies in...
Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2022
Review: Director Carrie Cracknell's "Persuasion"
The new adaptation of " Persuasion, " coming to Netflix Friday, does not seem to have been made for Jane Austen fans. Her book about the unmarried Anne Elliot, who at 27 is on the edge of spinsterhood and regretting having been persuaded to give up her true love years earlier because of his lowly...