The beginning of Halloween Kills feels like the final nail in the retcon of the original Myers sequels... what you have is something designed to kill and becoming stronger because a divided community is destined to argue with each other instead of coming together. Sound familiar?
An Empathetic Look At Influencer Culture
DIRECTED BY MAGNUS VON HORN/POLISH, ENGLISH/2020
At the risk of sounding like a boomer, or Gen X, which I a...
A New Look at the Old West
From the late 1930s through the early 1960s, the Western genre reigned in Hollywood. Studios were releasing as many as 140 Wester...
The 2021 Oscars will get Animated Shortly…
Once again, ShortsTV is bringing this year’s batch of Oscar nominated Live Action, Documentary, and Animated ...
Because Your TV Isn’t Just for Playing a Loop of a Burning Log
Contrary to what your Instagram feed might suggest right now, that high tech black box agains...
A Short Film of Social Justice From D.W. Griffith
DIRECTED BY D.W. GRIFFITH/1909
I have recently been championing film studies/universities to focus more...
Our Top Picks for Spooky Season
If calendar years could trick or treat, I think we all agree this year has been all tricks and no treats.
That let’s-be-d...
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.
