Review by Bradley Smith Prequels can be tricky. You take one or more characters from an established series and flashback to a point before established events. It can be interesting and fun to fill in reference points (half the movie leads up to that one Han line from...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes Those in need of an emotional boost will find a rousing one in this documentary about the life and professional legacy of Fred Rogers, best known as the host of the long-running PBS show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. While Rogers passed away...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes While it does not add anything new to Chekhov’s classic play, Michael Mayer’s The Seagull serves as a well-acted and faithfully reproduced iteration. Mismatched passions and ambivalence tangle together over the course of several years at a...
Writer/Director Alex Garland’s latest trip into the metaphysical and biological plain of existence is a mind f*** of a film from the opening to the closing frame. It’s a movie that toys with the notions of cellular mutation, extra terrestrial life, and deities with...
Greetings again from the darkness. A few years ago, Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Lelio and his co-writer Gonzalo Maza delivered a terrific little indie entitled GLORIA (starring Paulina Garcia). It told the story of a single woman in her late 50’s navigating a society...
The Most Unknown is a larger-than-life documentary, both in scope and possibly budget, as they take you to sites 14,000 feet above sea level and about 15,000 ft. below. Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning director Ian Cheney (The Search for General Tso, The City...
Greetings again from the darkness. Director Wim Wenders has had a varied and diverse career dating back 50 years with both narrative and documentary films. He is probably best known for PARIS TEXAS (1984), WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), and PINA (2011). As a filmmaker, he...
Greetings again from the darkness. Allowing three regular guys to play themselves in the cinematic re-telling of their courageous and heroic actions is a fitting tribute to the men, and it’s an approach that we must be willing to cut some slack. On August 21, 2015, a...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary serves as a kind of prequel to Grey Gardens. Comprised almost entirely of footage from the summer of 1972, when Lee Radziwill (sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) and photographer Peter Beard spent the season...
Review by James Lindorf Momentum Pictures released the new hybrid concert film and documentary, Steven Tyler: Out on a Limb, on VOD and Digital HD on May 15, 2018. The film directed by longtime Tyler collaborator Casey Tebo is one part intimate look at Tyler, one part...