FILM REVIEW: DEATH LETTER BLUES
Southern Gothic and moody magical realism makes for a sultry crowd-pleaser.
FILM REVIEW: A NAME IN YOUR BOOK
(IMAGE: Allen Ling Music) An AllenLingMusic.com Release. 2022. 6 mins. Grade: 3 out of 5 Heartbreak and learning to let go are the themes of writer/producer and performer Allen Ling’s trilogy of short films, each shaped as narrative music videos. A Name In...FILM REVIEW: THE ACCURSED
(IMAGE: Screen Media) A Screen Media Release, 2022. 96 minutes. Horror/Thriller Grade: 3 out of 5 A curse is at the center of The Accursed — it happens in the prologue of this effective horror-thriller which, while walking a well-trod path for movies in the...FILM REVIEW: TEAM MARILYN
Tim Cogshell weighs in on TV showrunner LaToya Morgan’s directing debut
REVIEW: SPEED OF LIFE
Delightful in just about every way, writer-director Liz Manashil’s SPEED OF LIFE still manages to ask more than a few uncomfortable questions about who we are and where we’re going as individuals, as a society, and as humanity. They’re the kind of questions that...FILM REVIEW: US
What does “Get Out” writer/director Jordan Peele do for an encore? Nothing less than another chillingly original American classic.
FILM REVIEW: THE BELLWETHER
Itunes/Amazon Prime (2018) In the midst of the Me Too and Times Up movements, wrought by years of abuse at the hands of accused (and some convicted) perpetrators the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Roger Aiels, Pat...FILM REVIEW: THE DEVIL WE KNOW
Itunes / Amazon Prime. 2018. Doc. 95 minutes. Dupont and 3M are iconic names in the annals of American corporate prowess and the development chemicals for myriad uses, all meant to render the human condition more tolerable. For decades ordinary Americans with no...ON BLACK PANTHER AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
Black Panther has already made a lot of Black folks rich, but will be making them wealthy – which is even better.