The 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring “outstanding” performances from 2021, took place last night at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California. It’s the year’s first big televised awards show on the road to Oscar night. As the name applies, the awards are all about the acting, and there were some fascinating nominees duking … Continue reading
The battle for streaming service supremacy has never been more competitive (or lucrative) as it is right now. Netflix remains the top dog by a pretty significant margin (around 220 million subscribers at last check). Amazon Prime Video (175 million subs) and Disney+ (120 million subs) are next in line. Further down is the Disney … Continue reading
(CLICK HERE for my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) It’s hard to argue with the Foo Fighters’ sensational music career. Now the freshly minted rock and roll hall of famers take a brief detour from music to try their hand at movies with their first feature film “Studio 666”. While the group has been … Continue reading
(CLICK HERE for my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) “Cyrano” is a fabulous new telling of the Edmond Rostand literary classic that’s more directly linked to Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical. Director Joe Wright enlists Schmidt to pen the screenplay and twin brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner (who some might know from the rock … Continue reading
Anyone who reads this site regularly knows I’m a huge Christopher Nolan fan. Any Nolan film is an event for me. His next film sounds considerably different than his past work but just as intriguing. It’s “Oppenheimer”, a biographical drama that sees Cillian Murphy playing the “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sporting … Continue reading
(CLICK HERE to read my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) “Sundown” from writer-director Michel Franco opens with a shot of several fish on the deck of a boat. As they make their last gasps for oxygen, a man stares down at them with a solemn melancholy gaze. It’s a scene rich with meaning that … Continue reading
