This year’s Austin Film Festival had such a great line-up of feature films made by some of the most talented directors who have worked in cinema for the past several decades. As I was selecting my movies, I would see names like Darren Aronofsky, Rian Johnson and would instantly want to select those screenings. I… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2022: WOMEN TALKNG
Day: December 21, 2022
BABYLON
Whiplash, La La Land, and First Man are all movies that absolutely sold me on, and made me a fan of, filmmaker Damian Chazelle. So, I most definitely went into Babylon with great expectations. After sitting though the exhausting 189 minutes of Chazelle’s newest, I was reminded that almost every filmmaker has that one movie… Continue reading BABYLON
I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY
Musical artist biopics. Just saying those words aloud is certain to elicit eye rolls from some people, particularly film critics. To write, produce and direct any movie is no easy feat, but to do so about a real life musical artist makes the work so much more challenging. The problem simply is that the more… Continue reading I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY
WILDCAT
Wildcat is the title of a new wildlife documentary that has a South American ocelotfeatured in this story of animal rescue in Peru. A young woman, Samantha Zwicker, leads a project to rescue wild animals threatened by poachers. The film has remarkable footage of the animals in the Peruvian forest, not only of the abandoned… Continue reading WILDCAT
Austin Film Festival 2022: THE WHALE
If anyone where to look at how actor Brendan Frasier appears in the poster of this movie, and the title, it is easy to think this film is simply an exercise in fat shaming. And I know for a fact that there are audiences and film critics who interpret the entire film as such. However,… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2022: THE WHALE
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH
Wow! It has been eighteen years since the character (as known from the Shrek universe) was first introduced in Shrek 2, and it has been eleven years since the rascally swashbuckling feline had his own movie hit theaters. I suppose the question is why has it taken so long for a sequel? Well, regardless of… Continue reading PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH