Archives for July 2019

A prominently tough 60 Minutes interviewer is the subject of an intriguing, if not too probing documentary. Mike Wallace Is Here comes from Avi Belkin and the late co-host of the long-running (over half a century) hour long program with the signature stopwatch would probably approve of the portrait. Even the part when CBS was […]

Israeli helmsman Guy Nattiv tables the subject of former neo-Nazi Bryon Widner (from a documentary Erasing Hate) in a painful schism from a cruel past in 2006. His Skin stars Jamie Bell as Widner, the actual white supremacist skinhead immersed in zealotry,  part of a racial sect of loathing, the Vinlanders Social Group  headed by […]

Quentin Tarantino’s ninth (marathon) feature film leaves the blizzady environs of The Hateful Eight for Tinseltown circa 1969 (specifically two months) to again relate his insight and ardor for  his preferred medium.  Or the ones that really influenced his extensive interests and obsessions which including the craft of acting while having a ride in a […]

Disney’s remake of their 1994 animated film with incredible CGI work is quite impressive.   From the moment that “Circle Of Life” blasts from the theater speakers, you know that you’re in for a treat.  Elephants, monkeys, birds and a myriad of species gather to pay respect to papa lion, Mufasa (James Earl Jones) and baby cub Simba (Daniel […]

How do you escape from the crawl space under a Florida house during a hurricane after the discovery of a series of very large alligators have headed to the same space? With only eighty-seven minutes running time this film spends most of its time in action scenes as Haley (Kaya Scodelario) and her father Dave (Barry Pepper) […]