by Kate Morgan | Apr 1, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
A New Year’s Eve breakup can be brutal. Just when you’re ready to begin anew, a piece of your heart walks out on you. It just might be enough to put you in the back of a cop car. Enter Bill, a man who enlists his brother and best friend on a trip to win back the one...
by Miguel Cima | Mar 14, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
Just when you thought you can’t handle any more police-related killings in America, here comes a heart-wrenching documentary about a recent case that wasn’t so huge on the national news scene. While names like Michael Brown and Eric Garner have become well-known due...
by Miguel Cima | Mar 5, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
Blayne Weaver takes on all the main chores starring in, writing and directing this hardboiled boilerplate of a thriller. Taking the role of the eponymous main character (Max Chase), Weaver helms this feature full steam into the tried and true tropes of fast-paced...
by Miguel Cima | Mar 2, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
James Franco stars in, and co-directs (with Pamela Romanowsky) The Institute, a very odd tale of intrigue set in a 19th Century Baltimore asylum. Part horror movie, part over-the-top drama, the story follows a woman checking herself into a sanitarium for some healing...
by Miguel Cima | Feb 19, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
If cosmic coincidence does indeed speak through documentary film, Samuel D. Pollard’s Two Trains Runnin’ may be nothing less than proof positive that divine providence has chosen this medium to make itself known. If you love the blues, if you are enthralled by the...
by Miguel Cima | Feb 19, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews, Uncategorized
Director Waheed Alqawasmi delivers an engaging short documentary portrait of the struggles Holocaust survivors endured when they moved to Memphis, TN after being liberated from Nazi concentration camps. Starting over in a whole new country with nothing, these tales of...
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