Shakespeare With Kevin Spacey :: Movie Review
The production has long since ended. In 2012, Sam Mendes (director of American Beauty, Jarhead, and Skyfall) led a production of Richard III in collaboration with the Bridge Project Company and Kevin...
View ArticleMovie Review :: Only Lovers Left Alive
Jim Jarmusch has developed a bit of a reputation for himself as a curator. Musician cameos, film-nerd name drops, and carefully-selected soundtracks have come to represent the filmmaker more than his...
View ArticleGodzilla is Back on the Big Screen
Something miraculous happened this weekend: I turned into a five-year-old again. My dad hated Barney. He thought the show was ridiculous and its pacifist message trite and infantile. However, there is...
View Article12 Years to Theaters: The Unique Journey of Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood”
Remember 2002? Tom Brady and the New England Patriots were the Cinderella team winning their first Super Bowl. Halle Berry became the first black woman ever to win the Oscar for Best Actress. And for a...
View Article“The Fault in Our Stars” Review
There is nothing that I cannot stand more than boastful filmmaking. You know the type. These are films that assert that their stories are going to be so much better than their peers’, that their tale...
View ArticleNetflix Premiers Its First Exclusive Documentary
There’s symmetry to Netflix premiering a documentary on an independent baseball team that ruffled the feathers of Major League Baseball. Forty years after the Portland Mavericks were founded, Netflix...
View ArticleCheck your privilege at the door: A review of the indie movie Stay Cold Stay...
As the two get closer, it become harder and harder for Harley to hide his secret. In the end, their friendship falls apart in a fit of violence spawned from Harley’s lies.
View ArticleSo You Want to Be A Film Critic…
First, put videos of yourself on YouTube talking about movies. Make sure your beige walls and unframed anime posters/drywall stains/”man cave” signs are in the shot at all times. If your webcam is...
View ArticleA Conversation with Bob Rose
In a city as full of vibrant performing arts as Baltimore, with so many classically-trained artists around, the climate can be kind of intimidating. But as many local artists have told me, this is a...
View ArticleFor the Love of God(ard)
When Adieu au langage/Goodbye to Language screened at Cannes this year, the audience reportedly broke out into fevered applause about halfway though the film. When the same film premiered at...
View ArticleAscending Beyond Meru with Sundance Film Festival Award Winner :: Renan Ozturk
Photos by Isaiah Williams During the creative process, you can’t always anticipate how events will unfold. This is an important lesson I learned from my recent conversation with Renan Ozturk, an...
View ArticleLeviathan: Ivan Petrov Reflects on the Award Winning Film About His Homeland
Like the Russian filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev, I personally try to stay away from politics as much as possible. Yet when I saw the film Leviathan achieve a monstrous deal of both acclaim and criticism,...
View ArticleTribeca Film Festival Debuts Award Winning Documentary: ‘Uncertain’
Self-funded and self-produced, co-directors Anna Sandilands and Ewan McNicol premiered their feature length cinematic debut Uncertain at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 16. The...
View ArticleHanging out in Tent City :: Maryland Film Festival 2015
The Wednesday opening night party for MFF is always a special event, with the unique screening of selected short films foregrounded, rather than more common practice of opening with a prestigious...
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"The Fault in Our Stars" Review
There is nothing that I cannot stand more than boastful filmmaking. You know the type. These are films that assert that their stories are going to be so much better than their peers’, that their tale...
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Netflix Premiers Its First Exclusive Documentary
There’s symmetry to Netflix premiering a documentary on an independent baseball team that ruffled the feathers of Major League Baseball. Forty years after the Portland Mavericks were founded, Netflix...
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Check your privilege at the door: A review of the indie movie Stay Cold Stay...
What happens when a friendship founded on a lie gets too close for there to be any secrets? Stay Cold Stay Hungry is a film that takes place, for the most part, in New York City. Manny (Stephen Hill),...
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REEL UNITY: Baltimore International Black Film Festival
An explosion of talent, inspiration and entertainment with a story for every soul, the 2nd Annual Baltimore International Black Film Festival opens on Thursday, October 8 with 70 films from 17...
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Say It Loud Film Festival
[text_output]“I want people to know that this event is about them having the opportunity to share their story and let it be heard, let it be known,” says festival founder and Miami native Tony Mendez....
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Men & Women Who Stare at Goats: The 2016 Maryland Film Festival Preview
[text_output]The Maryland Film Festival is back for its 18th year, and judging by the preview event I attended on Tuesday 4/19, this year’s lineup will continue and expand the thoughtful programming...
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