Sunday, July 6, 2025

Op-eds

Middleburg Film Festival 2023 Preview

I am happy to be returning to the Middleburg Film Festival (October 19-22) in Virginia. As in past years, I will review a handful of movies I will see there, most of...

Top Ten Vincent Price Horrors

Beyond his more famous Poe and Roger Corman collaborations, Vincent Price made numerous horror pictures filled with mayhem and macabre. Here are ten essentials from Price's scary oeuvre showcasing his tongue in...

Op-Ed: Andersonian Grief: Bargaining

ELI Everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What my book supposes is… Maybe he didn't. Good con artists aren't just good liars, they're good storytellers. They build a narrative to keep you enthralled...

Op-Ed: Norman Jewison: Good Director in a Terrible Business

A film director who can work with different genres touching on many facets of life is a chameleon. One of these film directors is Norman Jewison. Alive today aged 97, Jewison is...

Interview: Tanner Beard of the Mammoth Film Festival

Multi-hyphenate Tanner Beard is best known for his work as a prolific producer of independent films but he has also distinguished himself in other professional fields. He co-founded the Mammoth Film Festival...

Criterion Releases: October 2023

All of the films coming out this month are part of the horror/suspense genre. From the time of silent films, these stories have been part of the cycle of movies being shown...

Ruan Lingyu: Tragic Icon Of Chinese Cinema

I recently came across director Stanley Kwon’s biopic Center Stage (1991) starring Maggie Chung as an actress I had never heard of before. While this film left much to be desired, partly...

Interview with Michael A. Goorjian – Director of Amerikatsi

For filmmaker Michael A. Goorjian, Amerikatsi was a passion project of sorts. As a member of the Armenian diaspora, he found it easy to relate to the film’s protagonist and wanted an...

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