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Movie Review (SCAD Savannah Film Festival): ‘The Piano Lesson’ is a Southern Gothic Haunting

Director: Malcolm WashingtonWriters: Virgil Williams, Malcolm Washington, August WilsonStars: Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler Synopsis: Follows the lives of the Charles family as they deal with themes of family legacy and...

Movie Review (SCAD Savannah Film Festival): ‘Memoir of a Snail’ is Full Of Heartache, Tears, and Hope

Director: Adam ElliotWriters: Adam ElliotStars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Sarah Snook Synopsis: A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs. The story is...

Movie Review (SCAD Savannah Film Festival): ‘The End’ is Full of Hits and Misses

Director: Joshua OppenheimerWriters: Joshua Oppenheimer, Rasmus HeisterbergStars: Michael Shannon, Tilda Swinton, George MacKay Synopsis: A Golden Age-style musical about the last human family. In a future where the world on the surface has ended...

Criterion Releases: November 2024

The month of November is PACKED. Very packed, with six films and the CC40 set that was previously announced. A Kurosawa staple plus a pop culture monster are the two standalone re-editions,...

Chasing the Gold: Sequels with Oscar-Winning Origins 

This year, three recent Best Picture nominees—Dune, Max Max: Fury Road, and Joker are back with a sequel or prequel—- Dune: Part 2, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and Joker: Folie a Deux.  While Dune is just a continuation of the...

Criterion Releases: October 2024

October. The last third of the year. Already, the holiday season is underway. No surprise that Criterion is filling up the month with several new films with the exception of one re-edition,...

Classic Movie Review: ‘The Third Man’ Stands the Test of Time

Director: Carol ReedWriter: Graham Green, Orson Welles, Alexander KordaStars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli Synopsis: Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death...

Films That Ended Before They Started

Joaquin Phoenix’s stunning departure days before he was set to shoot his gay romance drama with Todd Haynes brings up a nasty history of sudden cancellations. While the details have not come...

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