Author: Mark Saldana

SXSW 2017 Review: PARIS CAN WAIT

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Filmmaker Eleanor Coppola has spent much of her life and career working behind the scenes with filmmaker family members Frances Ford Coppola (husband), Sofia Coppola (daughter), and Roman Coppola (son).  She has served as her family’s historian/documentarian capturing the process of making movies through both photographs… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: PARIS CAN WAIT

SXSW 2017 News: Feature and Documentary Films Head on to the Oak Cliff Film Festival

By Liz Lopez The Oak Cliff Film Festival (OCFF) recently announced the Features programming to be held at the historic Texas Theatre and venues around the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, TX from June 8th – 11th. Aside from the Texas premieres of David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story” and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Endless Poetry”, I was… Continue reading SXSW 2017 News: Feature and Documentary Films Head on to the Oak Cliff Film Festival

SXSW 2017 Review: PARIS CAN WAIT

By Liz Lopez Rating: B-          “Paris Can Wait” was a spotlight in the Narrative Feature Screening Category of this year’s SXSW Film Festival where Director Eleanor Coppola attended the U. S. premiere of her narrative directorial and screenwriting debut. The best way to describe the film is a romance, with light doses of comedy and… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: PARIS CAN WAIT

Review: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES

By Mark Saldana Rating: 2 (Out of 4 Stars) The summer movie season has arrived, and a couple of the movie franchise sequels have already hit theaters.  With the arrival of sequels comes the traditional and highly unnecessary beating of dead horses.  What I am metaphorically referring to are the new installments of movie sagas… Continue reading Review: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES

Review: BAYWATCH

By Mark Saldana Rating: 2.5 (Out of 4 Stars) With the huge critical and financial success of the Jump Street movies, other studios have quickly followed suit with more comedic film adaptations of televisions series, though most of them have yet to achieve the same levels of success and acclaim (Dark Shadows, CHiPs).  From 1989 through… Continue reading Review: BAYWATCH

Review: THE WOMEN’S BALCONY

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) As a child growing up in a Catholic family and remaining active in the church through most of my childhood, I witnessed the different dynamics of power within my community.  I saw several pastors come and go, each bringing something different to the church, its services… Continue reading Review: THE WOMEN’S BALCONY

Review: BAYWATCH

By Laurie Coker Rating: C+/B- A film that purposely makes fun of itself works, if even on the most asininely inane level. The Baywatch movie, starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron, does just that – with no apologies and none are needed. Director Seth Gordon, working from a script offered by a half dozen writers, uses… Continue reading Review: BAYWATCH

Movie Trailer: WONDER

Source: Lionsgate Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman. Born with facial differences that, up until now, have prevented him from going to a mainstream school, Auggie becomes the most unlikely of heroes when he enters the local fifth grade. As his family, his new… Continue reading Movie Trailer: WONDER