Jon Batiste and Matthew Heineman Through Award-nominated doc American Symphony Musician’s Compositional Achievement and His Wife’s Battle to Overcome Cancer are Examined by Brad Balfour In 2015, when Stephen Colbert launched his version of The Late Show – taking over from David Letterman – one of his first moves was to invite musician Jon Batiste … Continue reading
JA Bayona and Enzo Vogrincic Society of the Snow is One of the Most Harrowing films of All Time – and Chilling As Well by Brad Balfour It’s an understatement to say that I’ve seen lots of films with varying degrees of frightening circumstances informing them. But Society of The Snow was one of the … Continue reading
Matthew Vaughn Master Mash-up Movie Maker Kicks Out His Latest Wacky Comic Adventure Argylle – Starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Alfie the Cat by Brad Balfour No matter what, British director Matthew Vaughn is having a good time making movies. Besides being married to former supermodel Claudia Schiffer, he’s just seen his mega-wacky, big-budget comic spy thriller, Argylle, get … Continue reading
Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, Steve Postell & Denny Tedesco Keeping It In the Immediate Family By Jay S. Jacobs It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say that the Immediate Family – guitarist Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar, guitarist Waddy Wachtel, bassist Leland Sklar and drummer Russ Kunkel – played on most of … Continue reading
Phil Traill, Kevin Kopelow & Heath Seifert Serve Up 90s Nostalgia With Good Burger 2 By Kayla Marra The 90s were a time of iconic fashion trends, formative moments in pop culture history, unforgettable music, and timeless sitcoms. One of the most memorable films to stem from this era is Good Burger – starring Kenan Thompson … Continue reading
Bill Pohlad, Donnie Emerson and Nancy Emerson In Their Wildest Dreams By Jay S. Jacobs Thirty-some years is a long time for it to take to become an overnight success. Just ask brothers Donnie and Joe Emerson. In the late 1970s, they were teenagers living on a sprawling farm in the tiny town of Fruitland, … Continue reading
Gareth Edwards Dynamic Sci-Fi Director Envisions an Artificial Intelligence-infused World Decades From Now in His Latest Film The Creator by Brad Balfour Employing actors with global reputations and locations all over the world, master sci-fi film director Gareth James Edwards has now put out The Creator. The film considers the effects of the Artificial Intelligence … Continue reading
Luke McManus Irish Director Makes a Doc of Dublin and Life on Its North Circular Road By Brad Balfour Having been to Dublin before, my image of the city is filtered through one idealized version or another. I’ve met buskers on Grafton Street and seen hipster haunts in Temple Bar. I’ve traipsed over to the … Continue reading
Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman, Bryan Cranston, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, Maya Hawke, Jake Ryan and Wes Anderson Take Us Down To Asteroid City by Jay S. Jacobs No one in filmmaking has such an eccentrically idiosyncratic narrative voice as Wes Anderson. The acclaimed writer/director has been putting … Continue reading
Sean Claffey Director Tackles Income Disparity and Other Economic Travesties Through his Doc Americonned by Brad Balfour At CraicFest 2023, director Sean Claffey debuted his powerful doc Americonned. It offers commentary by various political and sociological experts and an examination of ordinary citizens’ lives in order to address the impact that super-capitalists – the one percenters – … Continue reading
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