Posted in Film Honors

Film Honors: 1990

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

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Posted in Interview Oscars

Interview: Susan Wloszczyna

I managed to grab some time with Susan Wloszczyna of rogerebert.com to pick her brain about the film industry, but also to touch on the…

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Film Honors: 1991

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

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Posted in Film Honors

Film Honors: 1992

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

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Posted in Acting Characters Women

60 Kick-Ass Female Film Characters – Part VIII

These women and girls represent the sly, and clever. They are humanitarian, or an upholding of family values. They are, at a very young age,…

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Posted in Thanksgiving Website

A Thanksgiving Trailer

In a world… were you yearn to make a living writing a blog… You roll with the punches with the hard work that goes into it… You…

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Posted in Awards Season

European Film Awards – 1st Phase

Another awards event that ought to have much more impact, or at least attention, on the great big awards season is the European Film Awards….

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Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations

The Film Independent Spirit Awards not only signals the dawn of the ensuing awards season, it also finds a way to honor the story-telling and…

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Film Honors: 2012

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

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50 FILMS FOR CHRISTMAS – PART 2 OF 10

The wife and I are really getting through these Christmas-related films in a real hurry. A real mixed sack of film presents here, one best…

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60 Kick-Ass Female Film Characters – Part VII

A girl can spend years and years of her childhood in the wilderness in preparation for avenging her mother’s death. A woman can come face…

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Posted in Festival

Hidden Iranian Cinema Honored

  Ran by the Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation (ICAF), the Chennai International Independent Film Festival (CIIFF) in India aims to open our eyes across the…

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Posted in Director Interview Women

Interview: Barbara Ann O'Leary of Directed By Women

I spoke in depth to Barbara Ann O’Leary who created the Directed by Women initiative and website, an essential film-goers almanac. The pioneer talks a…

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Interview: Lynnaire MacDonald of Film Sprites PR

I spoke to Lynnaire MacDonald, founder of Film Sprites PR, a life-long writer and passionate film lover, about her background in film, and what propelled…

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