Beneath the Underneath
The annual Best of Underneath Cincinnati spotlights area independent filmmakers “In other words, I am three.” So began Beneath the …
Category Archives: Black Eye
A New Direction: ‘Something New’ Director Sanaa Hamri Moves From Videos to the Big Screen
The best music videos are distinguished by their compressed narratives and the director’s stylistic imprint. In some dramatic cases the …
Where Are We? – Mid-Decade Musings on Fear and Loving in the New Millennium
The new millennium began with dire prognostication, incessant paranoid rants about an apocalyptic technological crash and collapse of global markets. …
Lit Flicks: Literary Adaptations Offer Lots of Ideas for the Reader on Your Gift List
The holiday and movie-award season occupies one of the biggest and blackest quarters (as in bottom line) in the consumer …
The Lightness of Bee-ing: ‘Bee Season’ Addresses Spirituality in Subtle Ways
Our tumultuous political climate has threatened to overtake the realm of film as each side battles for the right to …
It’s Hard Out There for a ‘G’
From the Year of the Woman to the Year of the African American, we are constantly looking to Hollywood for …
Dream Sister
Director Tony Scott takes on the troubled life of model-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey A dark angel, he’s shuffling in/ Watching …
Rewriting History
Filmmaker David Cronenberg puts his distinctive stamp on a graphic novel In Adaptation, screenwriting genius Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) struggles …
Devils and Dabblers
‘Skeleton Key’ unlocks hoodoo secrets On the first track of his 1993 album Triage, David Baerwald created a noirish “Secret …
Pasquale Scaturro on Filming His Nile Adventure
Mystery of the Nile (currently playing the Cincinnati Museum Center’s OMNIMAX Theater) documents the first complete journey along Africa’s Blue …
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