Last year’s inaugural Filmfest 919 managed to provide early screening opportunities for the eventual Academy Award winner (Green Book) as well as the film that took home the North Carolina… Continue reading "Filmfest 919 Back for Year Two"
Raise Hell is the film I kinda hoped that Life Itself would be: angry, funny, sad, and insightful. It probes the life of its subject, always celebrating Ivins and her… Continue reading "Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Engel, 2019) — Full Frame 2019"
Whenever I attend a film festival, particularly the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, I try to schedule at least one film near the beginning or the end with the potential… Continue reading "Jim Allison: Breakthrough (Haney, 2019) — Full Frame 2019"
Nina (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) might be described as an angrier, more messed up version of Amy in Trainwreck. In the first few scenes of the movie, she comes off stage… Continue reading "All About Nina (Vives, 2018)"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the harrowing, autobiographically inspired story of a woman suffering from postpartum depression who is confined against her will and whose “treatment” drives her… Continue reading "Boy Erased (Edgerton, 2018)"
Movie lovers at Chapel Hill’s Filmfest 919 got an early look at Destroyer , a crime drama sure to generate awards buzz for the barely recognizable Nicole Kidman, who plays… Continue reading "Destroyer (Kusama, 2018)"
The Pushouts — Kate Galloway and Dawn Valadez (2018) Education opens doors to all areas of life. What happens if students drop out or are ‘pushed out’ by the system?… Continue reading "Full Frame 2018 – The Pushouts and In Cold Blood"
Full Frame is a documentary lover's paradise, an oasis of smart, thoughtful, often probing films that nestled in early April between the January post-awards dumping ground and the May launch of summer action movies.
I find it hard to be a Christian at SXSW.
"This is not a film we made here, I promise you. This is a movie."
