Tag: 2024
‘Ride’ Film Review- A Somber and Gritty Modern Western Drama
Director, co-writer, and star Jake Allyn’s new film, Ride, is a rugged and somber tale about the life of a rodeo rider and a family in crisis and an honest depiction of the life of the American Cowboy. C. Thomas
Tribeca 2024: Documentary- Checkpoint Zoo
February of 2022, Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, launched an unprovoked assault on the Ukraine. The Feldman Ecopark facility in Kharkiv (located near the Russian border) became one of the many casualties of Putin’s despicable attacks. The fighting left the Ecopark’s
Tribeca 2024: Documentary- Missing From Fire Trail Road
Director Sabrina Van Tassel powerful documentary, Missing From Fire Trail Road, examines the devastating case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, an Indigenous woman who disappeared from the Tulalip Reservation of Tulalip, Washington in 2020. Johnson-Davis is far from the only case
Tribeca 2024: Short Film Competition- Shut Up, Jack
We have all stuck our respective feet in our respective mouths on more than one occasion. Even those who are comfortable in any social situation have felt the wrath of embarrassment from saying something inappropriate. Sometimes, reading the room is
‘The Watchers’ Film Review: A Good Premise Thrust Into Absurdity
Adapted from the A.M. Shine novel of the same name and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan (M. Night’s daughter), the new horror movie/thriller, The Watchers, is an interesting film, until it isn’t. What starts out promising becomes a picture that
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival: ‘Grassland’ Film Review No
With its unflinching look at the failures of our criminal justice system, William Bermudez and Sam Friedman’s Grassland is a powerful and important social justice drama. Through the microcosm of a single Latina mother who grows and sells marijuana to
‘Young Woman and the Sea’ Film Review: The Choppy Waters of Clichés
To play Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel, Daisy Ridley trained under the tutelage of Olympic swimmer Siobhan-Marie O’Connor. Ridley’s dedication to getting her character’s swimming technique down correctly is evident every moment she is
‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Film Review- A Lyrical and Emotional Western Piece
With its beautiful landscapes coloring an artful story of emotion and violence, Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt, exists between the worlds of Claude Lelouch’s 1977, Another Man, Another Chance, and the western films of Andre De Toth. Scored, written
‘In a Violent Nature’ Film Review: A Uniquely Crafted Slasher
In the 1980s, after the massive success of the first Friday the 13th picture, woods-set slashers were all the rage. Every year found cinemas scattered with not only sequels to Sean S. Cunningham’s classic, but dozens of low budget ripoffs
‘Hit Man’ Film Review: Glen Powell Becomes a Real Movie Star
One of Richard Linklater’s greatest strengths is his ability to write interesting screenplays about interesting characters. The talented writer-director is one of the few modern filmmakers who can take cliches and mold them into something real and relatable. If one