Sundance 2020 Capsule reviews
Every year I see 30-40 movies at Sundance and I only get the chance to…
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Sundance 2020: Taylor Swift’s MISS AMERICANA Is Singing, No longer Shut Up
Review by Bears Rebecca Fonte Every year it becomes easier to publicly announce my love for Taylor Swift. My initial shock and surprise at the depth, musical complexity and pure pop perfection of her 2014 album ‘1989” has only been deepened by Tay-Tay’s open up her heart on “Reputation,” showing both sadness and rage. Netflix
ASSASSIN 33AD: Review
Review by Paul Salfen Assassin 33 A.D. might be one of the most perplexingly unique films to come along in quite some time. From director Jim Carroll, and based on his award-winning script, this is a sci-fi/action/drama/romance hybrid (complete with plenty of comedic elements) about a group of scientists that invent a time machine that
Sundance 2020 Preview
Sundance is here again, let the snow begin! Or not, actually, because this year I…
INHERIT THE VIPER: Spotlight on America’s Opioid Crisis
INHERIT THE VIPER casts a lens on the opioid crisis through the eyes of a European, Swiss Director Anthony Jerjen. The film delivers a dark drama set in small-town Ohio (actually filmed in Alabama) which is made all the more poignant by the fact that situations depicted in the film are all-too pervasive in certain
VHYES: Interview With Producer Tim Robbins, Director Jack Henry Robbins, And Actress Kerry Kenney
Described as equal parts comedy and drama, VHYES hit theaters nationwide January 17th. Listen as Paul Salfen talks to Producer Tim Robbins, Director Jack Henry Robbins, And Actress Kerry Kenney just after the screening of VHYES at Fantastic Fest 2019. A bizarre retro comedy shot entirely on VHS, VHYes takes us back to a simpler
NO SAFE SPACES: Adam Carolla Talks About Swaying The Pendulum “Back Towards Sanity” In American Colleges
Interview by Paul Salfen No Safe Spaces reveals how identity politics and the suppression of free speech are spreading into every part of society and threatening to divide America. Film Synopsis: No Safe Spaces, starring Adam No Carolla and Dennis Prager, is a film with a mission: to expose the growing threat to free speech
Fabio Frizzi: Frizzi 2 Fulci (Interview)
For many horror fans, The Beyond is one of the most memorable films in their discovery of the genre. It’s the second film in Lucio Fulci’s “Gates of Hell” trilogy, falling between City of the Living Dead in 1980 and The House by the Cemetery, also in 1981. Often called “an Italian Southern Gothic supernatural
TREY EDWARD SHULTS: Making WAVES And Family Drama
Interview by Paul Salfen WAVES is being heralded by critics as joy and pain, a film with anguish yet a call to forgiveness for family. We talk to Texas Director/Writer Trey Edward Shults, who hails from Texas but now lives in Florida. From writer/director Trey Edward Shults and starring Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Lucas Hedges, Taylor
Aussie Conscripts In The Vietnam War Depicted in DANGER CLOSE: THE BATTLE OF LONG TAN (Interview with Actor Luke Bracey)
The Controversy Over What Really Happened At Long Tan Tackled In This Gripping Film DANGER CLOSE is the retelling of some four to five hours in August 1966 in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan, where young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers fought for their lives when they were isolated against 2500