Seeking More than Beauty from ‘Beautiful Boy’
As a first-time film festival programmer (for the rebranded Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival), I found myself in the position countless …
Monthly Archives: October 2018
‘The Affair’ & ‘The Wife’ Beget ‘Colette’
By the end of the HBO series The Wire, I couldn’t imagine a more perfect merger of an actor and …
In ‘The Hate U Give’ Starr Carter Seizes Control of Her Own Narrative
In ‘The Hate U Give’ a young woman grapples with two identities—who she is in a predominantly black community and …
Fox19 -The New ‘Halloween’ and Scary Franchises
Now’s the time to not only review the new ‘Halloween’ movie (a direct sequel to the 1978 original), but also …
Double Feature – ‘The Sisters Brothers’ & ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’
‘Bad’ is one of those terms that gets thrown around far too loosely, like ‘genius’ and maybe its time for …
Fox19 – ‘First Man’ & ‘The Old Man and the Gun’
Find out about the men (‘First’ & ‘Old’) who seek to dominate the big screens throughout the region this …
Robert Redford’s Last Ride in Cincinnati-filmed ‘Old Man and the Gun’
I’ve been trying to recall the first time I saw Robert Redford onscreen —not via cable reruns or on VHS, …
Double Feature – ‘The Bookshop’ & ‘The Wife’
For the modern double feature to truly work, films need hooks, some element that breaks the surface, sinking into the …
Fox19 – ‘A Star Is Born’ & ‘Venom’
Is the fourth time the charm for ‘A Star is Born’ and/or will Tom Hardy’s ‘Venom’ infect us?
