A toothed-up Hugh Jackman bellowing lines from Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, while in dated pirate garb, somehow made, for better and worse, a ver…
| Nov 11 |
Human Capital If there is one takeaway from Alex Wolff’s recent filmography, it’s to never let his character drive a car. Bad idea. At once, Human Capi…
| Oct 18 |
Both movies are playing at Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge until October 17th: 36 Hours When Caniba was released year or so ago, my immediate reaction was “…
| Oct 15 |
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| Oct 4 |
NOTE: The 1st profile piece from “Cinema isN’T Dead” is coming up soon, and will focus on filmmaker Bill Morrison. If anyone has any suggestions for fu…
| Sep 23 |
Indeed, my fickle self is back on Substack and appearing in your various inboxes! No matter what, movies are a progressive medium. Whether I write revi…
| Sep 13 |
I’m not usually nervous going into a movie, but I was with The Nightingale. No, it wasn’t because of what I had heard would be featured and depicted. N…
| Sep 3 |
While many members of the Gulf South black community are featured in What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?, from single mothers to small business…
| Aug 25 |
In just one recent example of President Trump making a hateful and dangerous statement, our leader of the free world stated that Jewish-Americans who v…
| Aug 21 |
In 2008, exhausted from eight years of 9/11 fear-mongering and hungry for someone vastly different and, dare I say, antagonistic towards W. Bush, I was…
| Aug 19 |
Welcome one and all to this Substack experiment! More than a New Orleanian, more than an independent film critic of over eight years, I’m also a writer…
| Aug 16 |