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
Ben Affleck, Chris Tucker, Jason Bateman, Chris Messina & Matthew Maher In the Air Tonight by Jay S. Jacobs There are lots of iconic moments in history, many of which are turned into films. However, who would have thought that one of the better films of the year would be about the meeting of Michael … Continue reading
Jeremy Jordan and Timothy Scott Bogart People Out There Spinning Music Into Gold by Jay S. Jacobs There are lots of people whose name you probably don’t know who are responsible for much of the music which has made up the soundtrack of your life. People like Neil Bogart. Neil Bogart started as a singer … Continue reading
Rian Johnson Peeling A Glass Onion by Jay S. Jacobs The new face of modern mystery may very well be Rian Johnson. The writer director is releasing Glass Onion the second film of a planned series of Knives Out mysteries which will be filmed for Netflix. The first Knives Out film was a huge hit … Continue reading
Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones, Tanya Moodie and Sam Mendes Reflecting on Empire of Light by Jay S. Jacobs The flickering lights. The moving pictures. The classic stories. The grand surroundings. The stars, the music, the action, and the heartache. The love and the loss. All with a large, buttered popcorn, some candy and … Continue reading
Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Judith Light, John Leguizamo, Aimee Carrero & Mark Mylod Mayhem on The Menu by Jay S. Jacobs You hear talk about Hell’s Kitchen, but the gourmet restaurant in the new comic thriller The Menu really turns up the heat. It tells the story about a group of uptight upper-class … Continue reading
Phyllis Nagy and Wunmi Mosaku When In Need Call Jane by Jay S. Jacobs It’s rare that a film happens to capture the cultural zeitgeist of American beliefs with the force of Call Jane. Not that it was planned – or even wanted. Just a matter of months after the Supreme Court delivered the Dobbs … Continue reading
Mye Hoang Year of the Cat Daddies By Jay S. Jacobs We all know the old saying that dogs are a man’s best friend. But what about cats? After all, cats are the most second most popular pets in the United States. And cat videos have become ubiquitous on the internet. Some men must have … Continue reading
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