The 2024 El Dorado Film Festival makes its highly anticipated return from hiatus next month, opening Thursday, February 8th and going through Sunday the 11th. The event will be held at the South Arkansas Arts Center (110 East 5th St. in El Dorado, Arkansas). Tickets are available to be purchased now at the Arts Center … Continue reading
First Glance: “Mothers’ Instinct”
French director Benoît Delhomme (“At Eternity’s Gate”, “The Theory of Everything”) is joined by two Academy Award winning actresses in his remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 psychological thriller “Mothers’ Instinct”. The film stars Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, a duo who immediately makes this a must-watch movie. The film’s newly released first trailer only confirms … Continue reading
REVIEW: “Freud’s Last Session” (2023)
They had me at Anthony Hopkins. That’s all it took to grab my interest. Throw in that he’s playing Sigmund Freud opposite of Matthew Goode as C.S. Lewis and I’m utterly captivated by the possibilities. It has been said that revered neurologist and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud met with a young, unnamed Oxford don shortly before … Continue reading
Best of 2023: Lead Actor
Today I’m wrapping up my look back at the best performances of 2023 with what may be the strongest category of the bunch – Lead Actor. It’s a group filled with exciting contenders, and (once again) it was a tough one to narrow down to only five. But that’s how these silly lists work so … Continue reading
REVIEW: “Night Swim” (2024)
The 2024 year in horror kicks off with the mediocre and noticeably muted supernatural chiller “Night Swim”. It marks the feature film directorial debut for Bryce McGuire who also penned the script. The movie is based on a five-minute short film of the same name made back in 2014 by McGuire and his close friend … Continue reading
Best of 2023: Lead Actress
With the supporting performances in the books, today we began the task of looking back at the very best lead performances from 2023. As usual we’ll start with lead actress, a category chock-full of amazing talent. There were some REALLY good leading ladies to consider making this a challenging category to narrow down. But such … Continue reading