Category: MAIN

TORN HEARTS

From Blumhouse Television, comes a tense horror-thriller that reflects the dark, corruptive nature of ambition. Based in the Country music world, Torn Hearts tells the tale of two hungry musical artists who are desperate to be discovered on a larger level, and are so determined to get there. Director Brea Grant, with writer Rachel Koller… Continue reading TORN HEARTS

DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA

Para quien no haya visto la popular serie de televisión Downton Abbey (finalizada en 2016), se trata de la historia de una familia inglesa privilegiada que vive como es costumbre en la sociedad aristocrática. Posteriormente, Downton Abbey: The Movie (2019) se estrenó en los cines y ahora la extensa familia Crawley regresa con Downton Abbey:… Continue reading DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA

News/Events: Colman Domingo’s “Dot” to Premiere in Austin

The Austin premiere of Dot written by award-winning actor, director and playwright Colman Domingo opens today and performances run through May 28th at the Ground Floor Theatre. Directed by Lisa B. Thompson, this new play has themes of aging parents, midlife crisis, and the heart of a West Philly neighborhood. ABOUT Dot: The holidays are… Continue reading News/Events: Colman Domingo’s “Dot” to Premiere in Austin

WHEN IT’S GOOD, IT’S GOOD (Documentary Short)

Mexican-American filmmaker Alejandra Vasquez returns to her hometown of Denver City, Texas, to document the effects of the boom-and-bust economic cycles of the oil industry on the single-source economy of that town.  Denver City is in West Texas, just Southwest Lubbock, near the New Mexico border. It is in the middle of nowhere if you… Continue reading WHEN IT’S GOOD, IT’S GOOD (Documentary Short)

SLIM PICKINS

Watch the unlikely story of a man (Jahmicah Dawes) who knows little about the outdoors but decides to open up an outdoor outfitter store.  Also, he happens to be a black man in the small Texas town of Stephenville, where they had a Klan rally as recently as 2007.  This charming video documents the warm-hearted… Continue reading SLIM PICKINS

FIRESTARTER

(from left) Andy (Zac Efron) and Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) in Firestarter, directed by Keith Thomas.

Since Stephen King’s novel, Firestarter, was first published in 1980, the acclaimed and popular story inspired one cinematic adaptation in 1984, and a straight-to-television sequel in 2002. Though I have never watched the sequel, I do recall getting frightened and disturbed by the first movie version which stars E.T.’s Drew Barrymore. Of course, at the… Continue reading FIRESTARTER

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

(L-R): Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez, Benedict Wong as Wong, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange in Marvel Studios' DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved.

Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) casts a forbidden spell that opens the doorway to the multiverse, including alternate versions of himself, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange, Wong (Benedict Wong), and Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) (IMDB). I am a science fiction junkie and have seen all the Marvel… Continue reading DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

NORTHMAN

From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince, Amleth (Alexander Skarsgard), on his quest to avenge his father’s murder (IMDB). I was resigned in knowing this film was going to be graphic and gory but that turned out to be an understatement. This is one of… Continue reading NORTHMAN