Author: Steve Schweighofer

(This series is a challenge for all film nerds. I call out the film genre and five favorites, and then you tell me what I…

 (This series is a challenge for all film nerds. I call out the film genre and five favorites, and then you tell me what I…

This series is a challenge directed at all film nerds. On a regular basis, I’ll call out the film genre and five personal favourites, then…

Somehow 2016 has not ended for me. The acidic taste left by the temper tantrums thrown by spoiled citizens in the world’s most privileged countries…

by Steve Schwieghofer “Merry Christmas Eve, bitch!” Strains of “Toyland” playing in the background, so begins Sean Baker’s fresh and wonder-filled Tangerine. We begin our…

by Steve Schweighofer Henry II: HA! What shall we hang…the holly or each other?” For some reason it doesn’t appear on many Christmas movie lists, but…

Christian Carion’s tri-lingual, six-character fictionalized re-creation of an actual 1914 event probably has more weight today than it did when it was initially released a…

Or, the film that flipped the bird at Hollywood movie-making and changed everything. Next year is the fiftieth anniversary of a little film that drop…

Great films continue to speak to the human condition for decades long after they are initially released, and none begs the connotation, “Now more than…

Mention Hollywood epics and one of the first films that comes to mind is Lawrence of Arabia. AFI named it Number One on its “EPICS”…

So much theory has been written about 2001: A Space Odyssey. For this review, I’m siding with Mr. Kubrick who, when asked to explain the…