The Man With the 'Stache is Back
DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH / 2022
Before I sat down to watch Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile I went back and re...
Andrew Garfield and Lin-Manuel Miranda Sing Jonathan Larson's Story on Netflix
DIRECTOR: LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA/2021
2021 a great year at the movies if y...
years spent living in a Hare Krishna community in the 1980s through occasional, ultimately short-lived re-entries into the pop music scene in the 90s and 2000s. There are enough video materials still extant to provide some visual insight into Poly’s experiences later in life, after she had receded from the public spotlight.
The Village Detective: a song cycle tells of a mysterious canister of 35mm movie film rescued from the ocean floor by the crew of an Icelandic fishing vessel. The decades-submerged celluloid within proved to be four reels of a 1969 Soviet crime-comedy called The Village Detective (Derevensky detektiv). Having been down there for years, the film itself had taken on all kinds of peculiar chemical degradations. Although The Village Detective, directed by Ivan Lukinsky, is not considered any kind of rare or lost film, the physical damage to this print puts its discovery right in the wheelhouse of experimental documentarian Bill Morrison.
Comedy Meets Tragedy in Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker Biopic
DIRECTOR: MICHAEL SHOWALTER/2021
“Because he created everything, nothing he has created coul...
Jack London's Classic Novel gets an Award-Winning Italian Makeover
DIRECTED BY PIETRO MARCELLO/2019
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: JANUARY 19, 2021/KINO LORBER&nbs...
When the Pictures Got Big Again
This Best Of list observes the Academy’s eligibility dates for 2021 movies, March 1 - December 31, 2021. You can find Ju...
Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over functions effectively as an audio-video “greatest hits” collection for the artist’s core fanbase and admirers, and an engaging introduction or re-acquaintance (as in my case) with those who may be new to or only partially familiar with her work.
To the great credit of director and co-writer Colin West and said cast and crew, Double Walker makes a point of working terrifically within its limitations.
Supernatural Horror Indie Film Features Lance Henriksen, Natasha Henstridge, and Adam Beach
DIRECTED BY MARTIN GUIGUI/2020
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: JUNE 8, 2...
