FILM REVIEW: PLAYING WITH FIRE
Powerful documentary details harrowing ordeal of women in the U.S. Fire Service.
FILM REVIEW: WILD BEAUTY: MUSTANG SPIRIT OF THE WEST
(IMAGE: Winterstone Pictures) Rating: 3 out of 4 While making her 2020 film, Black Beauty, in the Onaqui Mountains of Utah, director Ashley Avis became aware of the startling way wild horses were being managed (or mismanaged) in places across the Western United...
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...