If everything goes according to plan, the moving picture industry will convene on March 27 at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater to celebrate the best in the cinema for the 94th Academy Awards. Yes, it’s the time of the year when some … Continue reading The 94th Academy Award Nominations
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the return to movie theaters with A Quiet Place Part II and Cruella (also available on Disney+ Premiere). But if those aren’t your bag, … Continue reading
A young man with nothing more than the clothes on his back and a deployed parachute hangs by a dead tree branch. The landscape around him is desolate. Then, from the dust and mist, a large black figure approaches. It … Continue reading Animation Double Feature
You cannot capture a man’s entire life in two hours,” Herman J. Mankiewicz says. “All you can hope is to leave the impression of one.” The movie Mankiewicz refers to is Citizen Kane—arguably one of the most well-known movies ever made—but … Continue reading MANK
To hold a meteorite is to place an object older than the history of humanity in your hand. It’s also to touch a truly foreign object. Where it came from and how long it took to get here, we cannot … Continue reading FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Dick Johnson Is Dead, currently streaming on Netflix. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM … Continue reading
This was the weekend we were waiting for: A return to movie theaters in the time of coronavirus. Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster, Tenet, was going to kick things off, fitting considering that fewer filmmakers are as personally devoted to the theater-going … Continue reading In Lieu of a Theatrical Experience: Summer Edition
Is it more important to be respected or liked? Most everyone wants to be both, but only a few achieve that goal. The rest of us scrap for one or the other. They’re not always mutually exclusive, but they often … Continue reading THE LAST DANCE
Spike Lee’s back, and he’s getting better with age. The first half of the 2010s found the filmmaker working in a different milieu with Red Hook Summer and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. Slightly atmosphere, quieter, lower budgets. Neither were duds, but nor did … Continue reading DA 5 BLOODS
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