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Film Review: “Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story” — The Life of a Jazz Phenomenon

Trumpeter Doc Severinsen had the right combination of talent and showmanship to reach and stay in the spotlight, and he adjusted the pieces of his life to maintain his singular place.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Johnny Carson, Never Too Late, Steve Provizer, the Doc Severinsen Story

Film Review: Last Call for Lost Souls — “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets”

This innovative “documentary” is a major accomplishment: it merits a much broader viewing than it is likely to attract (this one has “sleeper” and “cult classic” written all over it).

By: Ezra Haber Glenn  Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Bill Ross, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, Ezra Haber Glenn, Turner Ross

Film Review: “Another Round” — Not Drowning but Waving

The excellent cast and realistic tone make Another Round oddly accessible, despite its rather outrageous, anti-social premise.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Another Round, Mads Mikkelsen, Peg Aloi

Film Review: Killing Time in God’s Waiting Room — A Moving Picture about Life in Florida’s “The Villages”

Like a day in a Disney dream-land, the “heaven-on-earth” glow of life in The Villages ultimately fades – quicker for some than for others.

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ezra Haber Glenn, Some Kind of Heaven, The Villages

Film Review: “His House” — The Intimate Horror of Trauma

This is not your typical horror film; it thoughtfully explores how houses and people can both be haunted.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: His House, Remi Weekes, Sope Dirisu

Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Thanksgiving Edition — Stir-Crazy 12

Please don’t get on a plane for Thanksgiving. Avoid Covid by eating your turkey dinner before your computer screen, and watching — all free! — these handpicked classic movie entertainments.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alfred-Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Life in the Afternoon, Lifeboat, The Masque of the Red Death, The More the Merrier, The Seventh Bullet

Film Review: “Sound of Metal” — A Test of Character

To Sound of Metal’s credit, the narrative remains open-ended, refusing to descend into a predictable “Hollywood” story of triumph over adversity.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Darius Marder, Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal, Tim Jackson

Film Review: “The Nest” — More Is Less

The Nest is a personal story — unsettling, beautiful, moving and haunting — about that most public of sins: greed.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Carrie Coon, Jude Law, Peg Aloi, Sean Durkin, The Nest

Film Review: “Wojnarowicz: F**K YOU F*GGOT F**KER” — Homage to a Perpetual Rebel

The documentary covers a lot of dark and tragic territory, but it remains entertaining throughout, no doubt more than anything else from its skill in capturing the fierce, tender, acidic, brilliant, and ultimately inextinguishable energy of its subject, artist David Wojnarowicz.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Chris McKim., David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hugar, Wojnarowicz: F**K YOU F*GGOT F**KER

Film Review: “I Am Greta” — A Superb Love Song to a Teenager Fighting to Save the Planet

As Greta Thunberg travels the world, invited to speak to government bodies everywhere, she doesn’t every mince her words or try to build bridges. “You have messed up the environment!” is her shrill, righteous message.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, I Am Greta, Nathan Grossman

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