By Jan Hamilton Show-runner/Director: Joshua Rofé, Producers: Duplass Brothers Productions, Number 19Sasquatch is a true crime doc series following investigative journalist David Holthouse as he attempts to solve a bizarre twenty-five year old triple homicide that was said to be the work of a mythical creature. (World Premiere) Sasquatch is a weekly series that will be… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: SASQUATCH
Category: Reviews
SHEPHERD: THE STORY OF A JEWISH DOG
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Based on the novel, The Jewish Dog, by author Asher Kravitz, writer/director Lynn Roth adapts this remarkable, fictional story about a loving and loyal German shepherd caught up in the midst of World War II and the holocaust. Roth takes the audience on a dog’s often… Continue reading SHEPHERD: THE STORY OF A JEWISH DOG
SXSW 2021 Review: SOUND OF VIOLENCE
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) syn·es·the·sia /ˌsinəsˈTHēZHə/ noun PHYSIOLOGY•PSYCHOLOGY the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. (Oxford English Dictionary) To be more specific and detailed, the concept of synesthesia, as portrayed in this… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: SOUND OF VIOLENCE
A QUIET PLACE PART II
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) In 2018 John Krasinski’s fantastic horror/science fiction thriller, A Quiet Place, opened that year’s SXSW Film Festival and wowed its audiences at a packed Paramount Theater. That night, I was completely wowed, and was sold on the idea that Krasinsky is not only a talented actor,… Continue reading A QUIET PLACE PART II
CRUELLA
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Going into this movie, I didn’t know what to think. 1961’s 101 Dalmations definitely had an impact on my childhood when I first saw it during a re-release during the 1970s. However, the live-action remakes that were released decades later left me rather flat. Well, my… Continue reading CRUELLA
The DRY
By: Laurie Coker Rating: B+ A dismal, drought-ravaged Australian countryside provides the backdrop for director Robert Connolly’s tense, haunting crime drama The Dry, starring Eric Bana. A slow-burning fuse of a film beautifully directed and perfectly acted, The Dry captivates in the depth of its characters and the pain-staking detail of the telling. Balancing a… Continue reading The DRY
Film Review and Interview – The Boy from Medellin
By Liz Lopez Rating: B- Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, City of Ghosts, A Private War), an Academy Award®-nominee and Emmy-winning filmmaker, changes course with this music biography doc about one of the biggest international music superstars, J Balvin (born Jose Alvaro Osorio Balvin) from Medellin, Colombia. The Boy from Medellin takes a look at a… Continue reading Film Review and Interview – The Boy from Medellin
WRATH OF MAN
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Damn! Wrath of Man is definitely one hell of a title! It is what instantly made me interested in this film. And this movie does deliver on its promise in that it involves a protagonist whose only purpose is revenge. That said, director Guy Ritchie delivers… Continue reading WRATH OF MAN
WITHOUT REMORSE
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) It would seem like a Tom Clancy novel adaptation would come across as a Cold War relic, but the filmmakers behind this take on his novel have chosen a more modern spin on the action/thriller. Though this movie mostly works well enough, I feel that, had… Continue reading WITHOUT REMORSE
Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: FOR ROSA
By Liz Lopez Rating: B During the 1960s and 70s at the Los Angeles county hospital, many mothers of Mexican descent, some immigrants, went there to have their child delivered. While giving birth, they were issued English only documents to sign as they were registered and were told to sign oftentimes without their husbands or… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: FOR ROSA