Watching movies used to be a communal experience. Families, friends and dates met at the cinema for opening blockbuster weekends and chatted it up at the diner afterward. Today, our media consumption has become so fragmented, personalized, and solitary that…
“Greater love hath no man than he lay down his life for a friend.” That’s the thread for our Film Appreciation Night covering six films chasing the different ways this creed is portrayed.
The DailyWire+’s adaptation of Stephen R. Lawhead’s The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin dropped on Amazon Prime, providing us with a Season 1 (7…
Adapting Shakespeare is hard enough. Orbiting Shakespeare — building an original story that draws on his plays, his life, or his sources — is different…
You betcha! Stop talking during the movie! That’s courtesy. But on the screen, most people would say integrity means speaking up for what is right:…
As most Hollywood fans know, when Disney #cancelled Gina Carano over an innocuous (and true) tweet, The Daily Wire hired her to make movies together.…
This is NOT the Counting Crows song about guys dreaming of black-haired flamenco dancers in Amsterdam, nor is it that 1993 Richard Gere star-vehicle, and…
I used to write up my own Oscar list every year, and added some screenwriting notes to challenge writers… Until I realized that people only…
I want to start the year in a romantic mood, to inspire you to higher levels of creativity and originality, and we can’t get there…
Thriller/Comedy is a subgenre no one talks about but everyone wants. You can’t filter movies on Netflix and Box Office Mojo for it, but it…
If you had only 4 movies to make someone a Billy Wilder fan, what would you choose? For Film Appreciation Night (FAN) at Epiphany Space,…
For October FAN (Film Appreciation Nights), we’re doing a small list of movies about people who belong in rubber rooms. The psychos and the misfits,…
Don’t be afraid of subtitles. Be brave, and explore the absurd creativity of French director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He is the proud creator of several bizarre,…
We all love Mission Impossible movies — action thrillers about a single man or team forced into an absurd struggle against overwhelming odds. But this…
For those considering in the Oscar Noms, here are my mini-reviews (WITH SPOILERS) for the Best Picture category: Call Me by Your Name This year’s…